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Hey, Mama!!! Welcome back to What Self Care Looks Like, where I dive into the challenges of motherhood, so you can reclaim joy in your motherhood experience. Our guest today is author, Leslie Savisky. Leslie is a freelance writer for Pittsburgh Parent magazine and the Tribune Review, and the author of Other People's Words, Almost Too Late and These Broken Pieces. Leslie shares her experience with identify loss, postpartum depression & settling into motherhood later in life. You can connect with Leslie on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/leslie.savisky.writer/) & buy her books at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0856VNXDF?ccs_id=ba738792-01b7-4bbe-ae86-423966afe18aFeeling lost in motherhood? You can download Your Map Back to You at ⁠⁠⁠https://backtoyouin5.kit.com/map⁠⁠Be sure to share this episode with a working mom who could use some support & motivation!

Welcome into a Friday edition of Glenn Clark Radio, lots to cover on the program ahead of the Ravens Wild Card matchup with the Steelers tomorrow night here in Baltimore, Stan ‘The Fan' Charles will be in studio hanging out with Glenn and Griffin as we go over it all, talk some College Football Playoffs after Notre Dame taking down Penn State last night, plus we'll react to the late-night news of the Orioles signing relief pitcher Andrew Kittredge to help sure up their bullpen. We will get started guest-wise at 10:20am by heading up to Pittsburgh to catch up with Tim Benz from the Tribune-Review in Pittsburgh and also from the Steelers pregame show. At 10:40am, Bo Smolka will hop on as he does every Friday to help us preview tomorrow's game, get the latest and how he sees this game going with the Steelers. And at 11am, we will have the oppurtunity to preview Ravens/Steelers with Mike Golic from the DraftKings Network and his daily morning show 'Golic and GoJo' with his son Mike Jr., before Mike Sr. is in Baltimore this weekend for the national Westwood One radio call of the Ravens game. Then at 11:20am, we will check in with Trey Wingo from the DraftKings Network to talk Ravens/Steelers, and get his thoughts on Lamar Jackson's playoff resume, how far he sees this Ravens team going and much more…

On the first episode of Mike Drop in 2025, Mike Asti welcomes Pittsburgh media colleague Tim Benz of the Tribune-Review to offer the Steelers a reality check at the start of the new year. Just when fans thought this season might be different, the Steelers end up losing to contending teams and dealing with drama. What's been going wrong? How much is the drama impacting the team on the field? Are the Steelers contenders or just pretenders again?

Tribune Review's Joe Rutter joins Amy to talk about the possible Brandon Aiyuk trade to the Steelers, as well as everything going on in Steelers training camp.

The Tribune-Review's Kevin Gorman comes on The Fan Hotline to talk about the Pirates' win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday, and he discusses which players the team could be interested in selling off at the trade deadline.

In this hour, Jeff Hathhorn and Paul Zeise talk to Kevin Gorman of the Tribune-Review to assess what's worked and not worked for the Pirates this season. Also, what're some movies you could watch over and over? And you'll hear perhaps the greatest ending to a radio program in history. July 4, 2024, 9:00 Hour

Uncover the truth behind 'The Kecksburg UFO: The Story of the Century' with UFO investigator Stan Gordon. Explore the mysterious events of 1965 and beyond.It was in the early evening of Thursday, December 9, 1965 that the night editor of the Greensburg, PA, Tribune-Review sent me to the little rural community of Kecksburg, PA, to cover the reported landing of an unidentified flying object in the woods near a farmer's field.When I arrived, armed soldiers blocked access to what was the reported landing site and I was told that if I ventured into that field, I would be arrested. Yet, the soldier in charge told me that “nothing” had happened.Fast forward to today. We have with us on the Lean to the Left podcast UFO investigator Stan Gordon, a Pennsylvanian who for these past 59 years has been searching for the truth about what really happened that night.Stan has been researching UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and other mysterious events in Pennsylvania since 1959, so when the Kecksburg incident occurred, it was right in his wheelhouse. He is a former Pennsylvania state director for the Mutual UFO Network and produced the UFO video documentary, “Kecksburg the Untold Story.” He's written four books, including his latest, “Creepy Cryptids and Strange UFO Encounters of Pennsylvania.”Back in 2017, Stan invited me to speak at the annual Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department's UFO Festival, to recount my experience as a reporter that night. Now, it's my turn to have him on my show. Here are questions we discussed with Stan: Q. So, Stan, tell us what your investigation into the Kecksburg UFO incident has revealed.Q. What do you believe happened that night?Q. Eye witnesses said the object appeared to be steered – it just didn't shoot down from the sky. Do you believe those reports? If it was guided somehow, what does that tell you?Q. There have been suggestions that this was some sort of military device that might even have been radioactive. Do you believe that?Q. There's a replica of the object, which looks like a giant acorn, on display at the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department's grounds. It's complete with strange markings that some eyewitnesses said they saw. What do you make of that?Q. Since then, you've expanded your research to include other UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and then, of course, you wrote this latest book about “creepy cryptids.” First of all, what is a cryptid?Q. What's this research produced in terms of solid information?Q. You make a lot of public appearances to discuss Kecksburg and these other unexplained happenings. What's that experience been like? Have people come forward with more info for you?Q. In fact, you established a UFO hot-line for the public to report UFO sightings so you could investigate them. Is that hotline still in use? What is it? What's it produced?Q. How did the Kecksburg UFO incident lead you to expand your work from UFOs to Bigfoot and cryptids?Q. How can people find your books? How can they reach out to you to discuss or provide information?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

Uncover the truth behind 'The Kecksburg UFO: The Story of the Century' with UFO investigator Stan Gordon. Explore the mysterious events of 1965 and beyond.It was in the early evening of Thursday, December 9, 1965 that the night editor of the Greensburg, PA, Tribune-Review sent me to the little rural community of Kecksburg, PA, to cover the reported landing of an unidentified flying object in the woods near a farmer's field.When I arrived, armed soldiers blocked access to what was the reported landing site and I was told that if I ventured into that field, I would be arrested. Yet, the soldier in charge told me that “nothing” had happened.Fast forward to today. We have with us on the Lean to the Left podcast UFO investigator Stan Gordon, a Pennsylvanian who for these past 59 years has been searching for the truth about what really happened that night.Stan has been researching UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and other mysterious events in Pennsylvania since 1959, so when the Kecksburg incident occurred, it was right in his wheelhouse. He is a former Pennsylvania state director for the Mutual UFO Network and produced the UFO video documentary, “Kecksburg the Untold Story.” He's written four books, including his latest, “Creepy Cryptids and Strange UFO Encounters of Pennsylvania.”Back in 2017, Stan invited me to speak at the annual Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department's UFO Festival, to recount my experience as a reporter that night. Now, it's my turn to have him on my show. Here are questions we discussed with Stan: Q. So, Stan, tell us what your investigation into the Kecksburg UFO incident has revealed.Q. What do you believe happened that night?Q. Eye witnesses said the object appeared to be steered – it just didn't shoot down from the sky. Do you believe those reports? If it was guided somehow, what does that tell you?Q. There have been suggestions that this was some sort of military device that might even have been radioactive. Do you believe that?Q. There's a replica of the object, which looks like a giant acorn, on display at the Kecksburg Volunteer Fire Department's grounds. It's complete with strange markings that some eyewitnesses said they saw. What do you make of that?Q. Since then, you've expanded your research to include other UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and then, of course, you wrote this latest book about “creepy cryptids.” First of all, what is a cryptid?Q. What's this research produced in terms of solid information?Q. You make a lot of public appearances to discuss Kecksburg and these other unexplained happenings. What's that experience been like? Have people come forward with more info for you?Q. In fact, you established a UFO hot-line for the public to report UFO sightings so you could investigate them. Is that hotline still in use? What is it? What's it produced?Q. How did the Kecksburg UFO incident lead you to expand your work from UFOs to Bigfoot and cryptids?Q. How can people find your books? How can they reach out to you to discuss or provide information?Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lean-to-the-left-podcast--4719048/support.

Do we have a phenomenal guest this episode for you Rocket fans!! Ron Musselman, retired award winning sports columnist for the Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Tribune-Review, joins us to share some of his favorite memories from his exciting 40 year career! Stay tuned after the interview as well for updates and the near future schedules for the men and women's basketball teams. TOL!!

Ian Furness is running things early on this Friday morning and has a packed show for you ahead of the New Year. Tim Benz, Tribune-Review staff writer joins the program to preview the Steelers vs Seahawks game on Sunday, and Ian wraps the hour w/ the daily power play as the Kraken hosts the Philadelphia Flyers Friday night. The Seahawks have a chance to make the playoffs but their has to be some changes for this team to get over the hump and make a run at the Super Bowl, or can they really get it done this year and make a run?

This week, the  Tomlin haters have reached their loudest volume of the season, but where are the true fans who are trying to rally around their favorite team during the most important part of their journey? Then we'll talk with former Tribune Review reporter John Harris, the author of the new book, "Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach," where he'll share stories about why the Trib thought Russ Grimm would replace Bill Cowher, and why Tomlin is perceived differently than his peers and predecessors. Finally, we'll share our Steelers Christmas Gift Guide. What Yinz Talkin' Bout is the conversation about the Steelers social media conversation, exposing all the hottest and most toxic takes on the internet and beyond. Hosted by Kyle Chrise and Greg Benevent. Rundown -Peak  Tomlin Hate -Pickett '24 -AB's advice -Tomlin: the Soul of a Coach -Steelers Xmas Gift Guide Buy "Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatyinztalkinbout/message

Under the banner of, “Finding the Silver Lining,” I think one of the most important things that came out of the pandemic was an acceleration of the already occurring destigmatization of mental illness.Now again, that's a silver lining. Not just because of the sheer toll the pandemic took in human lives, but because as my guest today points out, for many of us it took the world shutting down to earnestly sit with our own thoughts. And while receiving a medical diagnosis can be incredibly relieving, simply taking a medication will not suddenly make everything better. And like my guest today, I speak from experience. For the first half of her career, Michele Capots was a journalist whose work was published by the likes of The Washington Post and Marie Claire. But while working full time at the Tribune Review, Michele came face to face with her own diagnosis, a struggle that would lead her to discover there's a difference between mental HEALTH and mental WELLNESS.This is just one of the many topics we cover in this week's episode. A tale of tragedy and triumph, Michele now shares her story and works with others who are learning that the path to recovery is very rarely a linear one, but well worth the journey.Enjoy the show! SHOWNOTES:Connect with Michele:LinkedInInstagram

On this episode, Jason talks with Bob Frye of the Pennsylvania Game Commission. Bob is formerly the outdoor columnist for the Tribune Review and currently the Associate Editor of the PA Game News. During the conversation, Bob details how he started his writing career, gives advice on how to become an outdoor writer, and shares tips for how to hone your writing skills. He also dives into some of his favorite stories from his career. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Get summer savings on tools when you mention the show at Allegheny Valley Winlectric!Nurture yourself with Nature by visiting WildRouted.com and using CUFREESHIP23 at checkout!

Developers want to build a 162-apartment complex at the site of former Irish Centre at the edge of Frick Park, but neighborhood and community groups are not having it. So what's at the heart of this? Reporter Ryan Deto with the Tribune-Review explains the environmental and traffic challenges, plus his experience with a certain faction of Pittsburgh NIMBYs. Want some more Pittsburgh news?  Make sure to sign up for our daily morning Hey Pittsburgh newsletter. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Not a fan of social? Then leave us a voicemail at 412-212-8893. Interested in advertising with City Cast? Find more info here.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graduation was just a few days away when a 23-year-old Pennsylvania coed when missing.   Chloe Stein was last seen leaving her job at a Sonic restaurant in Hempfield Township.  Her boyfriend received a text that night saying she was being pulled over, but she wasn't seen or heard from again. Police issued a Missing Endangered Person Advisory for her.   Two days later State Police received a tip that Stein was at a home in Jeannette. She was found safe. She told police that  she was abducted at gunpoint by a man in a mask  and was later released. It wasn't long before Stein  admitted that she made it up, because she didn't want to admit that she wasn't graduating and in fact hadn't been going to school at all.      Joining Nancy Grace today: Matthew Mangino- Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States" Dr. Nicole Vienna- Forensic psychologist specializing in in trauma and neurodevelopmental disorders,CEO Vienna Psychological Group, Inc. www.vpg-corp.com, Facebook-@drnicolevienna @vienna_psych_group  Bill Garcia- Private Investigator, "Bill Garcia Investigative Services", Part of Search Team for Sherri Papini   Trace Sargent- Search, Rescue & Recovery Expert, Podcast: "The Seeker's Quest", Facebook: The Seeker's Quest   Renatta Signorini- Staff writer at the Tribune-Review in Greensburg, Pa.,  triblive.com, Twitter: @byRenatta   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Robert Bowers, the suspect in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting must undergo psychiatric evaluations. That was the opinion of U.S. District Judge Robert Colville. Paula Reed Ward is covering the Bowers trial for the Tribune-Review. She tells Rick Dayton the judge was very specific in his instructions to the prosecution and defense as to what his expectations are for the evaluations, how long they should take and made it clear they are not to interfere with the timeline for the next phase for the trial.

How do you cover a trial that will be as significant as the the Robert Bowers trial in Pittsburgh? Paula Reed Ward has been assigned that task for the Tribune Review. She joined The Rick Dayton Show on Friday afternoon to summarize the first week of jury selection from the federal courthouse downtown. Her live "on-line" reporting has been remarkable.

“Run Toward the Sound of the Cannon” — the power of finding the courage to run toward what you are afraid of , will ultimately set you free.  Valeria interviews Michele Capots  — She is a transformational coach, international speaker, and storyteller on the power of mental wellness and resilience. Michele often shares from the perspective of her own self-stigma and low self-worth that followed her after a mental health diagnosis more than a decade ago until she learned how to use those very things to set her free. Now, as a transformational coach, Michele's passion is working with others who feel stuck and unable to move forward like she did, no matter what their obstacle may be, so that they can align their goals and desires with who they are from the inside out and find the same freedom to be their authentic selves. In addition to being a coach and speaker, Michele is a writer and her work about her mental health struggles and victories have appeared in The Washington Post Magazine, Marie Claire, and the Tribune Review. She holds of Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Bethany College in West Virginia and is an Executive Committee Member of the Global Mental Health Peer Network. To learn more about Michele Capots and her work, please visit: michelecapots.com             — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

“A Conversation With Seth Rorabaugh” CBJ@PIT 03/07/23TribLive.com's Seth Rorabaugh (@sethrorabaugh) stops by to chat Penguins hockey with Jordan and Jeff. It's a big one at PPG Paints Arena tonight as the Pens look to take advantage of the “lowly” Blue Jackets… of course, we all know how “that” usually goes in this sport. Expect the Jackets to play above their pay grade tonight in Pittsburgh; hopefully the Pens can band together and stave off what will likely be an upstart onslaught.Thank you for listening!! Follow us on Twitter @penspod, on Instagram at @flypenguinsflyFilm of Crosby training with Marchand, offseason 2015:https://www.instagram.com/p/BXieMlWlGYS/?igshid=MDM4ZDc5MmU=Enjoy tonight's Penguins home game versus the Devil … AND of COURSE:LETS GO PENS!!JEFF TAYLOR + JORDAN DEFIGIO

It's the Friday news roundup! City Cast host Morgan Moody and producer Mallory Falk are joined by writer and historian David S. Rotenstein to talk about why reopening Fern Hollow Bridge is so important to Pittsburgh's Jewish community. Plus, they discuss the surprising pick for PA's new Speaker of the House and how to help Bicycle Heaven after the local gem (and world's largest bicycle museum) got flooded. As always, our Friday shows are powered by great local journalism.  David S. Rotenstein in Next Pittsburgh on Fern Hollow Bridge and the Jewish community: https://nextpittsburgh.com/pittsburgh-for-all/reopening-of-fern-hollow-bridge-reconnects-vital-link-for-pittsburgh-jewish-community/  The Spotlight PA Staff on Mark Rossi: https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/01/pa-house-speaker-mark-rozzi/ and https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2023/01/pa-midterm-election-2022-house-majority-democrats-speaker-election/  Ryan Deto in the Tribune-Review on the flood damage at Bicycle Heaven: https://triblive.com/local/bicycle-heaven-looking-to-raise-money-after-major-flood-damage/ You can donate to help Bicycle Heaven recover from flood damage here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/bicycle-heaven-museum-flooded-devastating-damaged Our newsletter is fresh daily at 6 a.m. Sign up here. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

*This podcast miniseries is made as part of an audio production class project for educational use.* *disclaimer: some of the article content of this podcast may include sensitive or triggering subjects* Welcome to Total Top 5, a western PA-based newscast where we give a rundown of the top-read news stories from the week. This episode rundown is for the week of October 31st-November 6th, with stories on new Legislation from Gov. Tom Wolf, an Intoxicated toxicologist's charges after their car crash fatally injured his passenger, a recap of Monday Madden with sneak clips from Hosts Timm Benz and Mark Madden, and a 45-mile police chase ending in the suspects shooting and subsequent death read by guest, Joe Napsha with the Tribune-Review. Special thanks to TribLive for assisting in the story curation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/stjtpod/message

It's the Friday news roundup! The team's getting you prepped for Light Up Night this weekend, sharing some fun funicular history as we wait for the Monongahela Incline to reopen, teasing a cool new walking tour on Downtown's Fourth Avenue, and tackling how to have a holiday with less food waste. As always, our Friday shows are powered by great local journalism.  Our own Francesca Dabecco on how to help your hungry neighbors: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=47857f2c492a1dda05a4762b9&id=eae0a4d5da And Thanksgiving takeout options: https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=47857f2c492a1dda05a4762b9&id=bda7890da8 & https://us14.campaign-archive.com/?u=47857f2c492a1dda05a4762b9&id=dd44dff26c  Katie Blackley in WESA on the rise and fall of Pittsburgh's inclines: https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2018-08-07/the-rise-and-fall-of-pittsburghs-inclines Ed Blazina in the Pittsburgh Union Progress on upgrades to the Mon incline: https://www.unionprogress.com/2022/11/14/mon-incline-may-open-for-light-up-night-but-work-remains-to-be-done/  Julia Felton in the Tribune-Review on Light Up Night plans: https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-unveils-plans-for-light-up-night-saturday/  Richard Cook in Pittsburgh Magazine on weekend road closures: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/want-to-know-which-roads-will-be-closed-this-weekend-for-light-up-night/ Our newsletter is fresh daily at 6 a.m. Sign up here. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pat Narduzzi's squad lost Kenny Pickett to the draft and Jordan Addison to USC. But even with those departures, expectations remain sky high. Jerry DiPaola of the Tribune-Review joins Lance Glinn to discuss Pitt Football, the additions they made, and whether they can repeat as ACC Champions. Host: Lance Glinn Guest: Jerry DiPaola Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tribune-Review columnist and host of the BetRivers Pittsburgh CityCast Tim Benz (@TimBenzPGH) joins Razor to breakdown the offseason and the Draft for the Steelers and talk a little Pirates baseball.  Get top sports betting picks and analysis at https://beerlife.com/   

Joining us is journalist Lori Falce. Lori has over 20 years of experience, primarily in crime reporting. She currently serves as the opinion editor for the Tribune-Review in the greater Pittsburgh area. Lori previously served as the deputy editor for the Centre Daily Times. In conversation with Lori, is producer Jeff Shane. When two lovers find themselves a pious community's worst-kept secret, there are fatal consequences for everyone involved in the torrid romance.  Connect with Lori on Twitter https://twitter.com/lorifalce Check us out online! www.instagram.com/KT_Studios   Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joining us is journalist Lori Falce. Lori has over 20 years of experience, primarily in crime reporting. She currently serves as the opinion editor for the Tribune Review in the greater Pittsburgh area. Lori previously served as the deputy editor for the Centre Daily Times. In conversation with Lori, is producer Jeff Shane. When a small town is rocked by a murder, a bored housewives's secrets will prove to be the killer's undoing. However, as the investigation takes many twists and turns the true motive for the senseless crime leaves everyone stunned. Connect with Lori on Twitter https://twitter.com/lorifalce Check us out online! www.instagram.com/KT_Studios Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For our Friday news roundup, the team hears about student demands at Sewickley Academy; a former lawyer's five-year federal prison sentence for marijuana distribution; the Warhol docu-series (and the artificial intelligence that replicates his voice); and, finally, some bridge news that doesn't end in collapse… we hope. Today's conversation is powered by local journalism, including: Paula Reed Ward has some great background from the Tribune-Review on the antics of former attorney and rapper Daniel Muessig, aka Dos Noun, including the infamous video: https://triblive.com/local/former-pittsburgh-defense-attorney-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-marijuana-distribution/ Like Morgan, 90.5 WESA's Julia Zenkevich attended the student press conference about the happenings at Sewickley Academy: https://www.wesa.fm/education/2022-03-10/sewickley-academy-students-seek-public-apology-petition-administration-for-concessions Ed Blazina's got a great scoop at the Post-Gazette on Norfolk Southern's NDA: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/transportation/2022/03/07/norfolk-southern-pittsburgh-bridges-construction-modification-double-stacked-trains-north-side-allegheny-commons/stories/202203070012 And City Paper's Amanda Waltz lets us know what to look for in Netflix's new six-part series, “The Andy Warhol Diaries”: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/the-andy-warhol-diaries-looks-at-intensely-private-life-of-pittsburgh-born-pop-artist/Content?oid=21245880 Our newsletter is fresh daily at 6 a.m. Sign up here. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh!

For our Friday news roundup, the City Cast Pittsburgh team discusses the movement to encourage a local foundation to stop funding hate groups; a possible dispatcher strike on the day of the St. Patrick's Day Parade; and rising prices at the Pittsburgh International Airport. We also dig back into a story about regional police charging sex workers with “possessing an instrument of crime” if they carry condoms. Check them out: Jordana Rosenfeld for City Paper on the Colcom Foundation: https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/over-70-organizations-demand-colcom-foundation-stop-funding-anti-immigrant-groups/Content?oid=21201599 Jesse Bunch for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the dispatcher strike: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/03/01/Allegheny-County-911-dispatchers-strike-notice-St-Patrick-Day-union-parade-March-12-SEIU/stories/202203010104 Kiley Koscinski on 90.5 WESA on rising airport costs: https://www.wesa.fm/development-transportation/2022-03-01/audit-shows-some-items-cost-nearly-twice-as-much-at-pittsburgh-international-airport And John Oliver's most recent episode on sex work, featuring reporting by the Tribune-Review's Megan Guza: https://archive.triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/condoms-criminalized-in-allegheny-county-prostitution-cases/ Our newsletter is fresh daily at 6 a.m. Sign up here. We're also on Twitter @citycastpgh & Instagram @CityCastPgh!

Chris Adamski of the Tribune Review joined the guys to talk Mason Rudolph, his tweet from this weekend and the state of the Steelers. 

12-23-21 The Program opens the show carrying the more of the Chiefs press conferences and what they should be expecting as they prepare for the Steelers. The Program is also joined by Tim Benz, Tribune-Review writer who covers the Pittsburgh Settler and a little bit about the evening in Mizzou athletics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonathan Bombulie from the Tribune-Review talks the Penguins, their depth, and the NHL with Joe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy Thanksgiving from Steve, Paulie, Jordan and the gang! We're thankful for our three guests from yesterday's show! First, Voice of the VCU Rams Robby Robinson helps preview tonight's basketball game. Then, Tribune-Review's Tim Benz discusses Saturday's SU-Pitt football game. Later, Brandon Steiner has some great ideas for holiday gifts once you finish your turkey!

Happy Thanksgiving from Steve, Paulie, Jordan and the gang! We're thankful for our three guests from yesterday's show! First, Voice of the VCU Rams Robby Robinson helps preview tonight's basketball game. Then, Tribune-Review's Tim Benz discusses Saturday's SU-Pitt football game. Later, Brandon Steiner has some great ideas for holiday gifts once you finish your turkey!

Fanfare columnist for the Tribune-Review, Jean Horne, and Christine Thompson, long time member of the Mendelssohn Choir, both have worked tirelessly for the Pittsburgh Symphony Association event Symphony Splendor Holiday House Tour 2021 taking place at a gilded age Shadyside House Mansion the weekend of November 19th.  The story of the house and the forty musicians of the orchestra who will perform is discussed with Jim Cunningham. Christine also has details on the upcoming Choir events and Jean reveals at least one secret of her column.  

This is WPXI-TV's 'The Final Word,' Pittsburgh's most popular Sunday night sports talk show, with this episode featuring Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports, Mark Madden of 105.9 the X, Tim Benz of the Tribune-Review and host Alby Oxenreiter talking all things Steelers, Penguins and Pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is WPXI-TV's 'The Final Word,' Pittsburgh's most popular Sunday night sports talk show, with this episode featuring Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports, Mark Madden of 105.9 the X, Tim Benz of the Tribune-Review and host Alby Oxenreiter talking all things Steelers, Penguins and Pirates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

They say it takes two to tango, but apparently, it just takes one to mismanage money to the tune of $750k in hidden income. Notorious dance instructor Abby Lee Miller had an instinct for choreography from a young age… not so much for finances. Melissa takes the lead in today's story, which features the complicated life of Abby Lee Miller and her role on Lifetime's Dance Moms. Bankruptcy, Assault, Shantes, oh my! Grab some sour patch kids and listen to this story which will surely have you swinging from the chandelier.*We talk Mare of Easttown Spoilers between 2:25 and 7:25. If you haven't watched it yet, you may want to skip this section, and re-evaluate your TV choices. If you have watched, let us know what you thought of the finale!*Featured Podcast Promo: One Strange Thinghttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-strange-thing/id1526579247Sources:BOOK:Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee MillerINTERVIEW:Dance Moms: Abby Tells All Interview with Jedidah Bila.IB TIMES: https://www.ibtimes.com/truth-about-dance-moms-8-shocking-facts-about-abby-lee-millers-hit-lifetime-series-1572016https://www.ibtimes.com/abby-lee-miller-money-trouble-dance-moms-star-filed-bankruptcy-previously-almost-half-millionhttps://www.ibtimes.com/dance-moms-star-kelly-hyland-arrested-assaulting-harassing-abby-lee-miller-video-1533660PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2015/10/14/Dance-Moms-star-Abby-Lee-Miller-indicted-on-fraud-charges-pittsburgh/stories/201510140166ABC NEWS: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2014/01/dance-moms-star-kelly-hyland-on-alleged-assault-on-abby-lee-miller/CELEBRITY INSIDER:https://celebrityinsider.org/dance-moms-star-abby-lee-miller-gets-into-nasty-prison-fight-54426/DEADLINE:https://deadline.com/2016/06/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-guilty-plea-fraud-smuggling-charges-bankruptcy-lifetime-1201779760/TRIBUNE REVIEW:https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045758/http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/12524943-74/imprisoned-former-dance-moms-star-gets-lifetime-specialRADAR ONLINE:https://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/abby-lee-miller-fraud-sentencing-pushed-back-dance-moms/E ONLINE:https://www.eonline.com/news/849528/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-sentenced-to-1-year-in-prisonhttps://www.eonline.com/news/929008/abby-lee-miller-speaks-out-after-initial-cancer-diagnosisPEOPLE:https://people.com/tv/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-released-prison-transferred-halfway-house/https://people.com/crime/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-bankruptcy-fraud-sentencing/SELF:https://www.self.com/story/abby-lee-miller-neck-pain-cancerDANCE MOMS FANDOM:https://dancemoms.fandom.com/wiki/Kelly_HylandSURVIVOR NET:https://www.survivornet.com/articles/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-cancer-free-whats-next/DEADLINE:https://deadline.com/2020/06/lifetime-severs-ties-abby-lee-miller-cancels-virtual-dance-off-series-1202952325/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

They say it takes two to tango, but apparently, it just takes one to mismanage money to the tune of $750k in hidden income. Notorious dance instructor Abby Lee Miller had an instinct for choreography from a young age… not so much for finances. Melissa takes the lead in today’s story, which features the complicated life of Abby Lee Miller and her role on Lifetime’s Dance Moms. Bankruptcy, Assault, Shantes, oh my! Grab some sour patch kids and listen to this story which will surely have you swinging from the chandelier. *We talk Mare of Easttown Spoilers between 2:25 and 7:25. If you haven't watched it yet, you may want to skip this section, and re-evaluate your TV choices. If you have watched, let us know what you thought of the finale!* Featured Podcast Promo: One Strange Thing https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-strange-thing/id1526579247 Sources: BOOK: Everything I Learned about Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller INTERVIEW: Dance Moms: Abby Tells All Interview with Jedidah Bila.  IB TIMES: https://www.ibtimes.com/truth-about-dance-moms-8-shocking-facts-about-abby-lee-millers-hit-lifetime-series-1572016 https://www.ibtimes.com/abby-lee-miller-money-trouble-dance-moms-star-filed-bankruptcy-previously-almost-half-million https://www.ibtimes.com/dance-moms-star-kelly-hyland-arrested-assaulting-harassing-abby-lee-miller-video-1533660 PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/tv-radio/2015/10/14/Dance-Moms-star-Abby-Lee-Miller-indicted-on-fraud-charges-pittsburgh/stories/201510140166 ABC NEWS: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2014/01/dance-moms-star-kelly-hyland-on-alleged-assault-on-abby-lee-miller/ CELEBRITY INSIDER: https://celebrityinsider.org/dance-moms-star-abby-lee-miller-gets-into-nasty-prison-fight-54426/ DEADLINE: https://deadline.com/2016/06/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-guilty-plea-fraud-smuggling-charges-bankruptcy-lifetime-1201779760/ TRIBUNE REVIEW: https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045758/http://triblive.com/news/adminpage/12524943-74/imprisoned-former-dance-moms-star-gets-lifetime-special RADAR ONLINE: https://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/abby-lee-miller-fraud-sentencing-pushed-back-dance-moms/ E ONLINE: https://www.eonline.com/news/849528/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-sentenced-to-1-year-in-prison https://www.eonline.com/news/929008/abby-lee-miller-speaks-out-after-initial-cancer-diagnosis PEOPLE: https://people.com/tv/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-released-prison-transferred-halfway-house/ https://people.com/crime/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-bankruptcy-fraud-sentencing/ SELF:  https://www.self.com/story/abby-lee-miller-neck-pain-cancer DANCE MOMS FANDOM: https://dancemoms.fandom.com/wiki/Kelly_Hyland SURVIVOR NET: https://www.survivornet.com/articles/dance-moms-abby-lee-miller-cancer-free-whats-next/ DEADLINE: https://deadline.com/2020/06/lifetime-severs-ties-abby-lee-miller-cancels-virtual-dance-off-series-1202952325/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seth Rorabaugh, of the Tribune-Review in Pittsburgh, joins host Jesse Cohen to discuss the newly acquired Olli Määttä. The Finnish defenseman spent the 2019-20 season in a Blackhawks uniform but was drafted in the 1st round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the PIttsburgh Penguins. The 6'2 blueline helped the Penguins win the Stanley Cup in back to back season before being traded to Chicago in June of 2019. After hearing from Seth, Jack Jablonski joins the program to talk about the impact the Määttä trade will have on the Kings roster and what Kings fans can expect in the coming weeks. Never miss an episode by subscribing today at LAKings.com/podcast.

Captain Nemo - Politics have infiltrated Sports - Chris Adamski (Covers all sports for the Tribune-Review) joins Mark On Air to Talk about Coronavirus and Sports - Bonus Ask Mark Anything

We’re living through an unprecedented time in American history. Businesses are closed, schools are shuttered, and gatherings are canceled, all because of an invisible, infectious agent that our modern world hasn’t been able to match — not yet, anyway.Marking the unique circumstances, we spent the most recent episode of the P100 Podcast discussing the effects of COVID-19 on daily life (including our own), how people and businesses can help their communities, and how they can communicate during a crisis.If you’re hitting the download button or streaming from your “office away from the office,” thank you for listening and stay safe. Full Transcript:Paul:Welcome back to a special edition of the P100 podcast, the audio companion to the Pittsburgh 100 e-zine. This episode, solely focused on COVID-19, the coronavirus. I'm Paul Furiga, your cohost along with my colleagues, Dan Stefano…Dan:Hey Paul.Paul:And Logan Armstrong.Logan:Hi Paul.Paul:And I want you all to know at home we are practicing safe social distancing. In fact, we are so far away from you while you're listening to us right now ... well, that's another story. Seriously though, given the times that we're in, we thought that we would devote this entire episode of the podcast to understanding how we, as a community can deal with this. I've never seen a situation like this in my lifetime and as Dan and Logan frequently remind me, I'm old.Dan:I think you got a point there. I mean, I've tried to think of this in context of my own life. I'm 33 and I would say the most impactful thing that has ever occurred in my lifetime was 9/11.Paul:Right.Dan:And I was in high school whenever that happened. That was a time whenever the stock market cratered. The next day all air traffic was suspended. It was severely drastic. It took a long time for American life to get back to normal then. Whatever the new normal was, I should say. But this seems like it could be something different. There's a lot of uncertainty in the air, which there was at that time in 2001 for sure, but when we're talking about a virus here, we're talking about something that we don't have a vaccine for, it's a little bit scary right now. And I feel like the streets are even ... it's weird to be walking downtown. At the WordWrite offices here, we're getting ready to practice social distancing and work from home.Paul:Work from home, yeah.Dan:I could say in some ways it feels similar to those days after 9/11 but it's very different too.Paul:Absolutely. Logan.Logan:Yeah. And I'm a little younger. So I'm only 22.Dan:Little.Logan:I was a young kid when 9/11 happened. But also especially with what we're seeing in the market right now, very reminiscent of the 2008 era, which of course this has a few different causes than in 2008. But we've seen people are going crazy at supermarkets…Paul:That's right.Logan:... and really trying to stockpile, which is good because they're themselves trying to self-quarantine but it's going to be interesting to see how the markets react and how local businesses and business owners will wade through the waters during this time. Dan:AbsolutelyPaul:So a couple of things we wanted to do, number one, we wanted to share some helpful resources, which certainly there are probably, if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably a consumer of a lot of things online and you may already have some favorites, but we are at WordWrite in the business of working with reliable news organizations. So we'll share a few of our favorite go-to sources for local information here in western Pennsylvania.Paul:And then we're going to shift gears a bit and we're going to talk about our own experience because it's a crazy situation, but a lot of our clients rely on us for our crisis expertise. In any given year, we handle about 12 major crises, 10 of which you never read about because they're effectively handled. And then two of them, sadly, for whatever reason, they're all over the news. So we actually have a lot of experience in this arena and we are currently working with several of our clients on crises related to the COVID-19 outbreak.Paul:So first let's talk about some go-to sources here in western Pennsylvania. Dan and I, we share this other disease called being former journalists. Dan, some of your favorite go-tos for reliable and accurate information on what's happening.Dan:Still trying to get over that. The journalism disease. No, it's no disease. I mean, some of my good friends are journalists. So, I appreciate them.Paul:Yes, likewise.Dan:As you said, I do respect just journalism and what they put in. So I mean, your two major newspaper news sources in the area would be Post-Gazette and then triblive.com, the former Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And now just the regular Tribune-Review set in Greensburg. That's a great place to go for it. But I'd recommend, if you're talking locally, the Allegheny County Health Department. That's got pretty consistent and good updates.Paul:They have an entire page, Allegheny County-Dan:Yes, they do.Paul:... .PA.US devoted to COVID-19.Dan:Right. Everybody's got their own page on it now. I mean it's incredible. I think everybody has been a victim of getting all these emails now. And I mean fortunately I have an email from the CEO of Banana Republic to tell me that all their stores are safe, but that's also just ... that's best practice right now. And businesses are doing their due diligence to just show everyone that they're trying to do their best.Dan:But for right now, I mean, that gets a little bit away from our question and I'm kind of drifting here, but I would follow the PG and TribLIVE. But a lot of them, they're getting their information from the government sources here. But I would really trust the County Health Department and that's some of your most current information.Paul:Absolutely.Dan:Make sure you're following their Twitter accounts and everything you can.Paul:Logan anything you'd add?Logan:I'd also say that The Incline, they're usually a little more lighthearted, but they've been doing a really good job of grouping up various articles from multiple local publications.Paul:Yes, aggregating content.Dan:Yeah.Logan:Exactly. Yeah. Aggregating that and that's getting delivered to inboxes at 6:00 a.m. every day. If you need to be up to date on the latest news in the area, I would also say check out The Incline for that.Paul:I'm going to add a few more. So in the last few years, pretty much every television station in Pittsburgh has debuted some flavor of an online presence, sometimes up to and including live streaming of events. So one of the things we've been doing at WordWrite is we've been watching live streams of Governor Wolf, the Pennsylvania governor, and his press conferences, Rich Fitzgerald, the Allegheny County executive, the County Health Department. I believe the new director's name is Dr. Bogen, so that's available.Paul:I would also add, and this has not really gotten much attention because the debut occurred during this whole crisis, but Channel 2 KDKA, which is owned by a CBS Network, has debuted essentially I believe a local version of on-air all the time local news. So CBSN is the national network and there's some local connection. I'll be honest with our listeners, I haven't had time to fully understand all of that because we've been so busy with other things. Personally, I look at all of those. I also look at WESA-FM. One of the reasons for that is with everything that's happened in newspapers in recent years, the major foundations in Pittsburgh have poured a fairly substantial amount of money into building the newsroom at WESA and they have all of the same kinds of resources in terms of online delivery of news that we've just talked about.Paul:So those for me are all good services. Most of us, I'm of a certain age, I'm 61. I hate to say that in a room with somebody in their twenties and thirties but it's the truth, I can't lie, it's on my driver's license, anyway, even somebody like me can make use of the phone and I am getting a lot of alerts. So I rely on the alerts as well to remind me. Before we shift gears here and talk about some advice for our listeners, even in our own planning for WordWrite, as Dan mentioned, on Friday we were ready, Friday the 13th of March, we were ready to implement a phased work from home process where some people would be in the office. And by the time we got to Sunday of the weekend where mandatory, non-essential businesses are asked to close or it is voluntary but strongly encouraged.Paul:So things are just moving so fast now it's worthwhile not to scare yourself, and I think that's, Logan, why it's good that you mentioned The Incline. Really good journalists can have the right touch to put an uplifting spirit into their round up of things. Right? But you don't want to be consumed by the news, but you also want to be informed and up to date. You don't want to be headed out to go to an event or something like that when it's not going to happen. And it was just cancelled. I don't know. Anything you guys would add to that?Dan:Well I think if you're talking about cancelled events, just try to look up to see what one is actually on now. Pretty much the assumption should be that it's closed. But-Logan:Yeah. And one thing I'd add is that it is a little hectic with all of these things happening so fast. But one of the hopeful benefits of that is this quick action now is really going to be the precursor to slowing it down in the long run.Paul:Absolutely. And this is something that, for our listeners, that we've been talking about here at the company in terms of working with our clients and that is that we are at this inflection point where the number of people who might be contagious in our community is at its highest point at the same time that we have the least ability to test.Paul:So if we self-isolate for the next two weeks, what we'll be able to do is keep those who might be infected from spreading the disease. National news media is saying that the United States might be 11 days behind Italy, meaning that what's happened there could happen roughly two weeks later here in the United States. God forbid, we don't want that. Other folks I've seen on the national news talk about we want to be like South Korea where there was a lot of testing, the self-isolation and they seem to have, as the medical experts call it, flattened the curve, which is to say slow the growth of the virus so that the number of people who are sick doesn't exceed the capacity of the region's healthcare providers to treat those who are sick.Dan:One thing, Paul, I'd like to bring up, open the conversation to you and Logan is what's fascinating about this is similar, like we said, I mean I hate to keep making the comparisons to 9/11 because that was a very much different type of crisis, but that was a tragedy that affected almost everyone in the U.S. at some level. Corona possibly even more. Just in terms of even if you aren't getting the disease, I mean it's probably going to disrupt your life, whether how you're working or somebody that you know. Maybe your children are off of school right now. There's quite a bit going on. And Paul, yourself, I know you've had some, personal events that are affecting you, right?Paul:Oh absolutely. So I'll give you a few. Number one, one of our two daughters is getting married, we hope, on May 31st. There's been a lot of conversations with the venue and the providers. The baker and the flowers and everything else. And we'll see how things play out. May 31st might be okay, but let's just say that we're a little concerned.Paul:Our other daughter is getting her MBA at the University of Chicago and they have extended spring break, which has pushed their, they're on a quarter system, their third quarter deeper into the year. She's supposed to have an internship this summer. It was going to start June 1st. She won't be done with school on June 1st and we don't even know if she'll have the internship.Dan:Yeah, certainly, it's amazing how this is just disrupting lives. I mean it's putting almost everything on pause. It's amazing. Myself, my wife and I, we were planning on taking a vacation to Japan, it was going to be the first week of April and we were looking forward to this trip for an entire year. It was just something we'd planned. It's kind of a bucket list type thing and just a week ago we had to cancel it. Right now as we record here, there are no travel restrictions over there, but there's just no guarantee whenever you see the massive lines that are coming for people that are coming back into the country, at least from Europe. But just something we had to be take care of.Dan:And we were even planning on maybe having a backup trip to California. And now we're really seriously kind of rethinking that one. It feels selfish to say, well hey, this thing that was just a wonderful little pleasure trip for us here we're disrupting it. How horrible is that? But we don't know when we're going to be able to take that trip again. We planned for specific dates in our lives. We mapped around that. So it's just another area that it does affect things. But Logan, I know you've even had some ...Logan:Yes. Yeah. It's a similar situation. I had a trip planned to Italy. I guess I would've left last week. Yeah. But it is unfortunate that this is such a disruptive virus. But thinking on the bigger picture of things, I mean, it's much better to have these disruptions now and really put these policies in place, especially because not only on an individual level, but on a business level, as we touched on earlier, there's really a lot of things that business owners are going to have to prepare for. And there may be some crisis communications that business owners have to take into account and that's something that we've experienced here. Yeah, Paul?Paul:Oh absolutely. Absolutely. And we want to dig into that for the remainder of our time here on the podcast, this episode. And before I do that, I just want to give a quick shout out to your point, Logan, the retail and restaurant sectors are going to be particularly hard hit and in the local economy as well as the American economy, the percentage of workers who are hourly who have, let's just say less robust benefits packages, whatever we can do as a community to keep them in mind and help to keep them employed I think is really important.Paul:One of the other sources of information that I didn't mention earlier were members of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, the Partnership has articles in the Pittsburgh 100 frequently. Their weekly… they do a weekly sort of what's going on downtown email. And the one that I received just before we came in to record the podcast is all about this subject. So you can't dine in during the time that businesses are closed but you can still do take out. So there's things that we can do as a community to help our friends and our neighbors through. And I think it's something we should do.Dan:Yeah, I think before we take a deeper dive into talking about crises and crises management, what you said there kind of touches on an important point and one thing, one of the huge crises or huge problems that are coming out of this is whenever schools are closed there are a lot of students out there who might be on free or reduced lunch and these are kids who might rely on these school lunches to help themselves eat. It might be their biggest meal of the day.Dan:But one thing that you've seen is restaurants are coming out and offering free lunches to some of these kids. I believe some districts have, including I believe Pittsburgh Public, they have programs in place to help these kids to make sure that they have food, that they have resources.Dan:And that touches on your point there, Paul, about the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership in that…do something. If you're a business owner and you feel like maybe it's a helpless time right now, maybe you have to put pause on a lot of things, you can think of something to do and that's one way I think if you make yourself a goal and you have a mission, you can help yourself get through this, right?Paul:Oh, absolutely. We're going to shift gears now folks and talk about crisis. To Dan's point, this is one of the things when we sat down and we looked at this episode of the podcast, there were other segments and other things that we had planned to do perhaps, but we agreed that one of the ways that we could be helpful was to share with people what we know about this.Paul:So I'm going to kick off this portion of the episode here and Dan and Logan will jump in. So historically, one of the things that we've done a lot of at WordWrite is crisis communication. And one of the things we've learned is that there are only really four basic kinds of crises.Paul:So there are acts of God, there are acts of man, there are acts of God made worse by man, and there are acts of man made worse by God. That's it. You can think about pretty much anything bad that's ever happened in the history of the world. And there's going to be some element of one of those four categories. So certainly-Dan:If you asked my wife I think she would say that there are also acts of God made worse by Dan. But we'll leave it to four right now.Paul:Well Dan, the last time I looked, you are a human being, so we'll put you in one of the four categories.Dan:Got you.Paul:Anyway, certainly the viruses, if you want to call it that, an act of God, it's an act of nature. What we don't know yet is whether what's happened, our acts of man, let's call it, that it made it worse. When you go back to China we're not here to judge. We don't really know exactly where the virus spread began. But certainly there's humankind and there's nature mixed together in this crisis.Paul:So one of the things that's interesting in doing so much crisis communications at our firm that is both a positive and a cause for pause, is that most crises are predictable. This is not the first time that the world's been through an epidemic, a pandemic, a virus, and perhaps it's the 21st century technology-driven, I don't know if we've become a little bit lazy or we're just lulled into a sense of complacency, but what this epidemic is demonstrating to us that this can still happen in the 21st century.Logan:Yes. Even with all the technological advances, and medical advancements, and medical capabilities, something that moves this fast is very hard to control no matter-Paul:Absolutely.Logan:... how many technological capabilities we have. And it's something that we're probably not going to have a vaccine for, for a little bit. This vaccine isn't going to be coming in the next week or the next month.Dan:Testing's an issue too right now.Logan:Exactly.Paul:18 to 24 months is what people are saying.Logan:Right. So we're really going to have to figure out what the best course of action is. And I think that's going to be something that is going to be on the fly. Because, as you've said, we've seen these kinds of crises before, but there's no real way to account for all the variants in it and it's going to be on people and on the media to portray information in as close to real time as possible and as accurately as possible to try to help mitigate that.Paul:So one of the things that I think is true about this, 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic was just a terrible worldwide crisis. So that fits into what I just said about most crises are predictable. So we can learn from that. And to your point, Logan, this is fast moving, but we can learn from what's happened in Italy. We can learn from what's happened in China, within the more restrictive immediate window. So that's critically important.Paul:One of the other things that's important, and there are going to be people who are going to be picking over this for years, I'm sure, what we tell our clients is if crises are predictable, then you need to plan for them. So theoretically the world, especially the largest economies and countries in the world should have been planning for this sort of a thing. And there had been some, let's just say missteps, fits and starts.Dan:Yeah.Paul:Now for our listeners, even though this thing is underway, you can look at history and you can look at recent events to do your own planning for the crisis. So we're already in it. So to your point Logan, there's an element of every day is different and you can't predict for sure, but one of the things we do when we work with clients is scenario planning. What's the worst case scenario? What's the best case scenario, what's the likely scenario? And then you start to develop your communications around each one of those outcomes. And that guides you on a day to day basis in terms of what you need to be doing.Dan:Right in this situation, and I would just kind of play interviewer here with you Paul, with so many different businesses it's hard to gauge, exactly what are likely outcomes. Businesses right now we might think of they might have to do some layoffs, they might have to temporarily furlough some employees and whether certain bills pass out of our Congress here they may have wages, they may not. It depends on how large a company is. One thing here though, whenever we've had this discussion is we talk about, you start from a place of truth when you're communicating these outcomes. Can you elaborate a little more on that?Paul:Sure. So in a crisis like this, obviously if you're standing in front of the forest and the forest is burning behind you, you can't tell people that that smell in the air is a candle. You have to acknowledge even the hard truths.Paul:One of the things that we see time and again is that if you're straightforward with people up front and there's tons of university research on this that validates this point, they're going to give you the benefit of the doubt. If I own a restaurant in Pittsburgh that opened two months ago – I'm in a place that's not the same as a restaurant that's been around for 25 years. Right? And I need to say to people, look guys, we just opened. I can't guarantee you that we're going to ride through this unscathed.Paul:And then what you need to do is you need to communicate process. And that's where that scenario planning comes in handy. It's like, look, we don't know where this is going to end, but here's what we're going to do today. Here's what we're going to do next week. Here's our thought process and our plan, and there's a lot of university research on this too, that when you can't communicate content, if you can communicate process it calms people's fears and gets people organized around the common goal of moving forward.Dan:I guess that speaks to control. It might be the wrong word to say controlling, but trying to manage people's emotions here. I think we have to understand how everyone is feeling because we're feeling the same way on a lot of these things. I mean we can tell a business, a B2B business, okay, hey, this is how you want to talk when you're talking to your clients or something like that. But we have the same feelings whenever we're trying to listen to the government here. Are they going to tell us the process? Are they going to describe that?Dan:So can you talk a little bit about how to be a good effective communicator to work with the community and make sure that you're delivering this information not maybe necessarily in a doom and gloom way and just being an effective storyteller essentially?Paul:Right. So one of the things that we're big on obviously at our company is the process of storytelling. We have our own process that we help companies uncover what we call their Capital S story. And I do a lot of speaking around this. In a crisis there's no more important time for you to be thinking about your Capital S story and that story is this, it answers these questions. Why would somebody work for you, buy from you, invest in you, partner with you? If you're a nonprofit, why would they donate or volunteer with your organization? And that is the story above all stories for your company, your organization. That's why we call it the Capital S story.Paul:And you think about that in times of stress, a crisis like this, which is an enormous stressor. It doesn't matter so much what you say on a daily basis. It matters what people believe you to be as an organization. And I think Dan, that's kind of what you're getting at there.Paul:And in a crisis, what we find is whatever audience you're trying to reach, employees, partners, vendors, customers, that's where they go in their minds in terms of assessing whether or not to believe you when you say don't worry about this, or I need your help to do X, Y and Z so that we can pull through this crisis.Paul:Right now, all of us are being flooded with information and this story is like cast in concrete. It's bedrock. It's the granite of who your organization is and they're going back to that hard place that they can knock on, that they can sit on, that they can lean on, and that's the truth that they're looking for. To assess whether or not your organization in this time of crisis is an organization that can be believed.Dan:Now, not every business, well whenever we think of Corona individually, I mean I'm just thinking of the restaurant that's across the street from us right now but people aren't looking necessarily for Bruegger's Bagels to answer the crisis or come up with a vaccine or explain people how to feel. But how, if you're a business that isn't necessarily adjacent to the current crisis or if you're just you have nothing to do with it, but your business maybe is closed or something like that, how do you kind of manage these crises that you're not necessarily related to but it does affect you?Paul:So I think one of the things that we're seeing, and we started the episode today by talking about the news media and some other resources who are trying to be helpful. So you want to be helpful. And there's also an element of business as usual. A lot of the companies that aren't directly affected by the crisis, and of course I'm sure many of our listeners are saying, well everybody's affected by it, and certainly when we all need to be self-isolating, we all are affected by it, but if you're not directly affected by it in the sense that you don't run a restaurant or you're not a retail store or you're not an event space where hundreds of people would be expected to gather, this is a time to be helpful.Paul:One of the reasons why we're doing this specific episode of the podcast, we see many, many institutions in the community, there is an element of what they're doing, to your point, Dan, where it is on some level still business as usual. However they have the opportunity because of things being pulled in to reduce the spread of the virus, to have some time, to have some resources to be helpful in whatever way that they can be.Dan:Paul, all that stuff is really helpful here. And so I appreciate you especially sharing your expertise here in crisis communications and we encourage anybody who's listening at home to feel free to check out wordwritepr.com. We've got some really good information. There's some good stuff on crisis communications and certainly even one of our VPs here, Jeremy Church, just wrote a really interesting blog about effective crisis communication during outbreaks.Paul:Yeah. And Dan, we'll be putting up in the show notes, I wrote one in July of last year, Storytelling in a Crisis: Why You Need Your Capital S Story. And again, we're going to be sharing a lot more of the resources that we can. This is a time when we all need to pull together as a community. And certainly we have clients whom we work for and we have a lot of experience that we've developed over the years, and we want to be able to share that with the community in the spirit of helping everybody recover from this as quickly as possible. And to your point, Dan, if there's anything that we can do as people who believe in good, strong, authentic communications, we want to do that for the community.Dan:Absolutely, 100%. And as we wrap up here just the message from us here is hopefully everybody at home can weather this as well as they can. Every business can as well. It sounds cheery and optimistic to say, but we will get through this and we'll survive.Paul:Absolutely.Dan:Yeah. 

Gus Frerotte Gus Frerotte, who grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, talks about what it was like for him growing up with athletic aspirations, which led to eventually having a 15-year career in the National Football League. “My childhood was different than most. I fought through a lot of adversity. In 9th grade I broke my neck playing football and I didn’t play for my 9th or 10th grade year. I never played quarterback until I was a junior in highschool and then we ran the Wing T, so we never really threw it. I was just lucky enough to be 6’4” and 210 lbs.”   On this episode of Finding Your Summit Podcast, we talk with Gus Frerotte, Retired NFL Quarterback for the Broncos, Dolphins, Vikings, Redskins, Bengals, Lions, and Rams, Podcast Host, Partner at ProDayExperience.com, and President of Business Development for the startup RC21X who developed a tool for brain performance monitoring. Gus Frerotte shares his career in athletics, overcoming adversity and the idea behind coming up with his podcast Huddle Up with Gus with his co-host Dave Hager. “We started finding some traction with people. We found a local media company that wanted to help us called Tribune Review, and they helped us for a little bit. But then we moved on from them and now we are with Radio.com and we are really excited because we’ve been building this thing over the last nine months.”    What You Will Learn:   Gus Frerotte discusses his experience at the University of Tulsa. “College was great. I got to compete every day with guys from all over the country and you wanted to go prove that, hey, they are going to bring in 10 quarterbacks and I’m going to be the best one out here. We had a quarterback by the name of T.J. Rubley who was older than me. He got hurt in a game against Arkansas and my second year I was red-shirted. Then my second year in college I was not supposed to play, I was punting, and I ended up starting eight games that year.”   What does Gus attribute as the driving force to his success in hindsight that might not have been so obvious to him when he was younger? “Tulsa, we didn’t win a lot of games. But you just had to fight. You had to fight through adversity. You had to be tough. You had to take hits and get up off the ground and prove to your teammates that, ‘Hey, just because I got hit doesn’t mean I’m going to play here and be soft.’ Being from Western Pennsylvania one of the things is you’ve got to be tough. And that’s kind of what my mantra was going through my early and mid football career.”    Gus Frerotte talks about his dad being a tough military guy from a big family with 14 siblings. Was Gus’ relationship with his dad a contentious relationship or was it just a matter that his dad was pushing him hard in a healthy way? “There was some contentious times, you know? In eighth grade when I was playing football I came home after the first practice and I said, ‘Dad, my foot is killing me.’ My mom says, ‘I think he broke his foot,’ and my dad said, ‘No, I just bought him those new cleats. He’s playing. Just tie your shoes tighter.’ I played the whole season. My foot is still hurting. The doctor says, ‘How long has it been like this?’ I said, ‘Since the first day of practice.’ He said, ‘Well, you’ve been playing on a broken foot for nine weeks.’”    Guy’s tough father taught him some lessons about expressing emotions that he chose to do differently with his own family. “My dad never told me he loved me. You know what I mean? It just didn’t happen until he was super sick and he’s older, I’m older. I don’t care what he thinks now. I’m going to say it. And I don’t go a day without telling my wife or telling my kids, if I get to talk to them, and they are not busy, that I love them.”    What was it like for Gus Frerotte to play for the Washington Redskins? “It’s just a great NFC East team. Back when I was drafted, the fans, there was a 10,000 person waiting list to get tickets. It’s not the Washington Redskins that you know today. And it was such a big thing. I didn’t care.  I was going to go there. I was going to do everything I could. I didn’t want to leave at any time. I practiced everyday, longer than I was supposed to.”    Seven Different Teams   Gus Frerotte describes what it was like to bounce around the NFL to seven different teams, comparing it to moving around as a military family would. Washington DC was clearly a highlight. “My wife and I were married after my first year in the NFL and we had all three of our kids in Washington. I get cut by the Redskins after five years there and waiting to be picked up by somebody, end up going to Detroit. While I was at Washington, I’m also the talk of the town. I’ve been in the Washington Post all the time and through the quarterback of the Redskins, you are almost in the paper as much as the president.”    If Gus Did it All Over    During this episode of Finding Your Summit Podcast with Gus Frerotte, not only does he share his successes, but he opens up about difficult moments and areas of life that he views differently now. “The one thing I regret over all of it is I wish I just some how some way written down more people’s numbers. Because there are so many people that I got to meet that I don’t remember and I wish that I just somehow solidified that a little bit better.”    Links to Additional Resources: Gus Frerotte: Linkedin Twitter Huddle Up with Gus podcast: huddleupwithgus.com/podcast

The Ride Home Thursday Dec. 5 On today’s show: Pastor Bill Glaze from Bethany Baptist Church (Homewood) talks about Holiday Stress Busters; author & columnist Salena Zito (11 years with Pgh. Tribune Review) talks about her New York Post article “Rust Belt voters on Trump: ‘I’d vote for him again in a heartbeat’”; and film critic Alissa Wilkinson (vox.com) joins John & Kathy to discuss the best films of 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Ride Home Thursday Dec. 5 On today’s show: Pastor Bill Glaze from Bethany Baptist Church (Homewood) talks about Holiday Stress Busters; author & columnist Salena Zito (11 years with Pgh. Tribune Review) talks about her New York Post article “Rust Belt voters on Trump: ‘I’d vote for him again in a heartbeat’”; and film critic Alissa Wilkinson (vox.com) joins John & Kathy to discuss the best films of 2019.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lose Thomas Porter Wells of Pittsburgh Thomas flushed his grandparents' ashes down the toilet to get revenge on his mom for kicking him out of her home, according to police.                 McKeesport police say Porter's cruel revenge was sparked by mom Denise Porter kicking him out of the house last September because of his drinking and marijuana use, according to the report.   She reportedly learned through a relative in February that her son had flushed the ashes of both her mother and father before he left.   The ashes had been kept lovingly in a box set up with a memorial in her room, according to the criminal complaint.   Wells initially denied it when his mom called — but later doubled down, sending her a text message saying he would also flush her ashes down a toilet after she died, the Tribune-Review reported.   Wells was arraigned Monday on two counts of abuse of a corpse and one count of criminal mischief, according to the Tribune-Review.                 Winner 7 year old Joseph Jared Lucas from the UK Joseph can draw accurate world map in minutes He's learnt capital, borders, seas and currencies of individual nations Joseph has Autism and has been cartography-mad since 2017 Hi mom Suzanne Garner said that 'he knows more than me', and revealed that he shockingly hasn't even been taught geography  

Yinz ready for another episode of re:verb? On today's show, we interview Dr. Barbara Johnstone, professor of English and Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, and one of the foremost scholars of an American English dialect known as Pittsburghese.Our conversation touches on the history and features of Pittsburghese, how it has helped to forge various local identities in the city and beyond, and more broadly, how the ways that we talk about language influences our use of language. We discuss Professor Johnstone's career, how she became interested in place-based registers, and to what extent her own work may have influenced public perceptions of Pittsburgh speech. Finally, we end with a light-hearted discussion of human-animal communication, and Alex develops his folk theory about regional dialects of cat-speak.Works & Concepts Cited in this Episode:Hawhee, Debra. "Toward a bestial rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 44.1 (2011): 81-87.Johnstone, B. (2013). Speaking Pittsburghese: The story of a dialect. Oxford University Press.Johnstone, B. (2018). Discourse analysis. John Wiley & Sons.Johnstone, B., & Pollak, C. (2016). Mobilities, Materialities, and the Changing Meanings of Pittsburgh Speech. Journal of English Linguistics, 44(3), 254-275.Johnstone, B., & Baumgardt, D. (2004). " Pittsburghese" Online: Vernacular Norming in Conversation. American speech, 79(2), 115-145.McCool, S. (1982). Sam McCool's new Pittsburghese: How to speak like a Pittsburgher. Renaissance News Inc.Pittsburgh Dad: Going to Gram's“Bringing the Word Straight to You” Podcasts (from Dr. Johnstone's Pittsburgh Speech and Society Project): http://pittsburghspeech.pitt.edu/PittsburghSpeech_Podcasts.htmlJim Krenn's “Pants N'at” sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2QQZ9ZHuYA good YouTube playlist of Rick Sebak documentaries based in PittsburghTribune-Review, “Hey, jagoff! Keep Pittsburghese out of politics”, 5/22/2018, Tribune-Review.

Marketing hasn't changed, but the medium has.Social media affords us the opportunity to reach a much wider audience, but you HAVE to flex your relationship-building muscles to make it work.John Chamberlin built the YaJagoff brand by accident. After losing a job as VP of Marketing, he turned his attention to mastering social media. Inspired by a Port Authority bus driver who refused to pull over and let traffic by, John started the YaJagoff blog to ‘call out the Jagoffs that make the rest of us look bad.' He leveraged Twitter and Facebook to gain traction, and the blog's popularity grew. John continued to branch out, adding videos of interesting Pittsburghers and finally launching the podcast.John had collaborated with Rachael Rennebeck on projects for Markowitz Communications and then reconnected through her work with Total Sports Enterprises, a sponsor of the YaJagoff podcast. They officially joined forces as YaJagoff Media in 2017, and together they create memorable digital content for clients and co-host the podcast, which just celebrated its 100th episode.In part one, John and Rachael share their best memories from the first 100 episodes. They discuss how they have taken the show on the road, most recently through the Fireplace Tour.  Listen in to understand how a commitment to learning social media helped John overcome adversity and create the YaJagoff brand and learn how partnering with Rachael has taken YaJagoff to the next level—skating the line between marketing firm and media outlet.Key Takeaways[04:41] How the YaJagoff podcast came about John lost job as VP of Marketing Started blog to call out Jagoff, learn SMM Added videos, podcast and developed brand Grew via Twitter, Facebook and Instagram[07:26] How YaJagoff came to do remote broadcasts Media partner to Total Sports Enterprises Offsite interviews with athletes Promote other businesses on location Summer porch tour (bring guests) Added winter fireplace tour Plans to record from St. Patrick's Day Parade[11:31] How John and Rachael connected Rachael began career as Tribune Review reporter Moved to Markowitz Communications in 2009 Collaborated with John on events (e.g.: Monster Jam) Started freelance marketing gig with Total Sports Reconnected with John, co-hosted the podcast Officially joined forces as YaJagoff Media in 2017 Do marketing and PR, cover events as media outlet[16:00] John and Rachael's most memorable moments on the podcast One-on-one interview with Garth Brooks Franco Harris singing Christmas carols ‘John Smith' costumes with JuJu Smith-Schuster[22:00] John's experience with overcoming adversity Family restaurant went under Secured position as VP of Marketing Lost job when company sold Started blog to learn social media Relationship-building translates to SMMConnect with John Chamberlin & Rachael RennebeckYaJagoffYaJagoff on FacebookYaJagoff on TwitterYaJagoff on InstagramResources MentionedTotal Sports EnterprisesJuJu Smith-Schuster on YouTubeThe No BS Marketing Show is brought to you by Larrimors Men's and Women's Designer Clothing. Free shipping. Free returns. Shop men's and women's designer clothing, shoes, accessories, jewelry and more online at larrimors.com or in-store, downtown Pittsburgh.Are you signed up for the No BS Marketing weekly update? You'll receive timely, valuable ideas to improve your marketing and transform your message. It's light, intended to be read in 2 minutes or less and it just might trigger bright ideas for you. To sign up, visit: massolutions.biz.Remember, ask yourself: What's The Big Idea and build your story around the answer. It's all about Bold Solutions, no BS.

Bob talks about the Pirates and Andrew McCutchen with Tribune-Review columnist Kevin Gorman.

On this episode of the No BS Marketing Podcast Dave dives into his rant about organization with 6 Tips about how to clean it up and be more efficient.Welcome to guest Chris Rodell, author and motivational humorist, who kicks things off talking about his start writing for the National Inquirer. His writing challenges included wrestling an alligator, laying on a bed of nails and eating like Elvis, where he gained 20 pounds in one week. The headline for the story? Are You Hungry Tonight.From the National Inquirer, Chris went on to write for the Nashville Banner, freelance writing for Maxim, the Wall Street Journal, and back to Pittsburgh where he worked for The Tribune Review.His book "Use All the Crayons," is a work nourishes his self-proclaimed desire to make people happy. He also makes people happy with his speaking engagements. Check out his "ape shit" crowd of students at WVU.Part Two of Chris Rodell's interview will go live Thursday, April 21.

In our second podcast, we discuss the recent "Florida" games before being joined by a special guest, Josh Yohe from the Tribune-Review. We get Josh's views on various issues before discussing Malkin, Eaton and goaltending. The Two Rob's and Jonathan finish with a mildly maudlin view on the next few games.

"Lynn is talking with Tribune-Review writer Paula Reed Ward about a Pittsburgh-area woman, Kimberly Andrews, who was assaulted at the Allegheny County Jail, while handcuffed, and was shoved from behind by an officer into an elevator and then tasered. Plus the jails use of a restraint chair that is higher than any other jail in the state."