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Fighting! Out of the funny papers, New Jersey! Presenting the rating! Defending! Undisputed podcast champion of the world! Jersey! The dawn! Cherry! Yeah. World Jersey the Con Jerry Friend of Jerry episode 24 You know where we're at You know you you you you you you you you you from Pittsburgh if you were offended still you know where we're at okay you know where we're at We're in front of Heinz Field okay it ain't it ain't it ain't act act of sherry Acrocia we're not there we're in front of Heinz Field okay it ain't it ain't it ain't act act of sherry act of sherry we're not there we're in front of Heinz Field couple weeks actually about about a month ago I'd say I got invited to the Steelers charity softball game for Kim Hayward he has it every year softball celebrity match or whatever so we're here I got him grateful to, got invited here. A bunch of athletes are going to be here.

Kenny Pickett, Mitch Shabisky, Tyrell Edmunds, Naji Harris, Tyson Alloalu, is going to be on Team Berg, Tone Digs, Britt Baker. These are superstars. You know, I'm going to be on the field with superstars here. And not only are there superstars on Team Berg, on Team World, there's a bunch of superstars as well. uh... first superstar on team world will be jersey jerry

uh... that's that's me will have on our team will have jalen rose will have uh... adam sheer is on our team d d on louis i believe is on our team this guy speedy is in the lead-off spot uh... this this is this is electric this something special. Like I said, if you said to me a couple years ago, Jersey, Jerry, you're gonna be on the field with your favorite football team, Pittsburgh Steelers, and a charity of it. I mean, it just wouldn't have happened. It just wouldn't have happened. So this is very special to me. This is very, very special to me i was grateful enough you know to meet some of the steeler's

a couple times now but it's gonna be it's gonna be intimidating you know i'll be playing catcher today on team on team world and uh... you know it's gonna be interesting when they come up to the plate you know the naji harris is did did did did did they came haywords uh... I got no choice but I mean I gotta trip these guys.

I gotta trip these guys and we will give a shot to the the manager and our team polls ice i believe is his name you know you put me in the in the eleven spot which is last in the line up this guy has no clue has zero clue what i have done uh... high school baseball just no no not a clue it did it it was a catastrophe what would happen keeping me in the eleven spot i'm actually happy kev that i'm that i'm playing catcher because you know i see the people coming up in the in the batter's box you know i'm right there it's not like they stuck me on left field i'm happy i'm playing catcher but i'm not happy that i'm that i'm 11th. It's very very sad. We just took a tour as well of PNC Park which was amazing. It was so nice. One of the nicest ball parks I've ever seen. We got a VIP tour. That'll come out on a vlog but took us in through the dugout in the stands and whatnot. I'll tell you what I love come the cab I love coming to the city of the at a Pittsburgh man. I love coming here. They They always treat me with such respect and such such love here Every time I come it's just all these people they make you feel so good Jersey Jerry Thank you for coming back Jerry's so happy to have you back in the Burg let me treat you to a round of golf. Let me let me treat you to a dinner. I mean Pittsburgh is one of the best sports cities in the United States 100% you go to Nashville 10 let's say you go to Nashville, Tennessee. I'll put it

you like this. You ain't walking down the street and seeing 10 people with a Derek Henry jersey on. It ain't happening. You come to Pittsburgh, you start walking the streets of Pittsburgh, downtown Pittsburgh, anywhere in Pittsburgh. You will see people just dressed in Steelers gear, Pirates gear, Penguins gear. I mean, this city loves sports so much and I'm always, always, always willing to come back here. We visited the Barstall Sports Book as well in the Meadows Casino, which was unbelievable. We're planning a stream there, so make sure you look out for that. I'll tell you what, the only way for this all to happen, and for this all to take place and all these experiences that this is, they're picking it up. Yeah, they're paying. So what's happening, so what's happening now is we're, we're, we're going to do the podcast right now, but after the podcast, we're going to go over to this thing called Picklesburg. It's like a food festival with a bunch of pickle-inspired foods and what not pickle-lice cream, pickle-lally pops, pickle steaks or anything. But that's not the problem. That's going to be fun. That's going to be all good. They got this bottom of the barrel type of band who has no clue how to play instruments to the right of us and they're just messing up the whole podcast. So if you hear it in the background just try to ignore it. Kev you'll you'll you'll you'll we were here first that's for sure we were here first they're not going on till six o'clock it's about 12 o'clock right now you're probably hearing the the background, bottom of the barrel drummer, uh, bottle of the barrel, uh, guitarist, but we're here now. And we were here first. This is going on the background. We're going to try to get through this. But like I said, um, none of this would, would ever take place. None of this would ever happen. Um, if I wasn't sober and that's the whole point behind this, you know, for for all this to take place for all the people I'm starting to meet you know quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers Tight end of the Pittsburgh Steelers, you know be able to come out here and see fans and take pictures and go out to eat with people You know that are affiliated with you know Steelers tailgates and stuff like that like all this For this to happen, you know, you I sober, which I am. And, you know, it's so grateful. I'm grateful for another day sober. You know, I hope you guys enjoyed. Was there last video, the, the, the seven year one, right? I hope you guys, I got great feedback from the, from the seven year video. Kevin put that together. Kevin was great, read the letter, you know, had an idea for that. I mean, I really appreciate everybody who listened to that and so many new people reached out, yeah, it was a burp. It was a little burp. I know you looked, you know, you looked a little, but that was a little burp, but so many new people have reached out to me. So many people that like, never contacted before, never contacted me started to follow me and you know just just share in my DMs like how grateful they are to get to watch that video. So I appreciate that more than you guys, more than you guys know. But just so you guys know, I'm grateful for all you guys that tune into my show. You guys like, you guys subscribe. You comment on the show all the time. I think the show is getting better and better each week. I really do. We got some heavy hitters lined up in the next couple weeks. I'm not going to say any names right now, but I always have to always have to remind myself that, you know, stuff like this takes time and I was talking to one of the guys in the office and I was telling them, you know, I wonder why, you know, the show hasn't like, you know, gotten bigger than what it is and you know, he had to reiterate to me like, hey, this should take time, you know what I mean? This isn't like, you do a podcast and 25 episodes in, 24 episodes in, it blows up. Like no, the most important part about this is being consistent, showing up, doing the show, keep getting the guests we're getting, and over time, I know that this is gonna be probably one of the best recovery podcasts that's out. I really do I strongly believe in that.

So we're going to keep grinding away here. I'm not going to stop anytime soon. My mission is so much bigger, bigger than what you guys can imagine. a couple weeks in

I'll get no no sorry in September going out to

Malton, New Jersey to speak at a convention with about three to four hundred people like That's just you know to be invited to something like that share your story and be one of the main guest speakers there This is what it with this is what this show is about you know sharing your story and sharing the hope and and maybe along the line of me sharing that stuff, one person at this convention can get help. You know what I mean? That's what the whole thing is about because you know, without you know, people who are just sober and they don't do anything about it, it's tough to say sober that way. It really is, you know, you don't stay sober by just like stopping everything and they're like, that's it, it's all done. It doesn't really work like that. You have work to do and you also have to do certain things as far as helping other people. Like I said in the letter, helping others is the, it says in the big book, others is the foundation stone of recovery that's one of the most important parts of recovery it is is helping other people that that's how that's how the system what what's wrong it's tough to pick it up this is this did did did This is... It's put a... It's put a monkey wrench into the plans here. What do I do with this? You hear it in the background again. This is tough. This band fucking sucks. They fucking suck. They do. Once again, we're getting cut off again by this fucking crumb band But like like let's get I want to get into the Steelers right now Steelers are disrespected man I'm done. I'm done. I'm done fucking cut it We're gonna have to get through it like the like the fucking like the flute like the the podcast flu game We're gonna have to get through this like the podcast flu game. This is tougher than that. This is tougher than that. This is tougher than that. What a what a shot. It's all hard. I mean, what a shot we have, you know, in front of the stadium, but this is just throwing a monkey wrench in it a plans man. This is this is this is disrespectful. They should, we should make them aware we're here. We should.

Are we big enough to do that? No, we're not. Yeah, so what's gonna happen now is we're gonna stop. We're gonna stop the interview now. Not the interview department. Whatever the fuck we're doing anyway. We're stopping it now. We're gonna go have ourselves a day. And then later tonight now they stop. Listen, I'm not dealing with it anymore. I'm not dealing with no more. We're gonna stop the interview there, they go again. We're gonna stop the interview now. We're gonna take this party to the hotel room later tonight. We'll talk about the softball game tonight. We'll do that. Fuck it. We'll do doing. We're gonna take this. We're gonna go enjoy the Picklesburg.

We're gonna do that. We're gonna go to the softball game.

And then after that, we're gonna talk about the softball game. Picklesburg, all that. Later tonight at the hotel. I'm done. I'm done. Alright, just kidding. We're back. We're back. They stopped playing the music. We think it stopped for good now.

So we're gonna look at your laughing.

I'm trying to get through this.

This is tough. This is not easy stuff.

They stopped the music.

We're gonna look here laughing. I'm trying to want trying to get through this. This is tough. This is not easy stuff. They stopped the music. We're gonna get back into this now. Like I was saying, we're not gonna go back to the hotel and do any of that stuff so we won't have information about the soft wall game. We won't, I'm done. Fuck! Forget it. We're going back to. I'm done. Later. Alright, we're back. We're back at the hotel room. We had to leave the parking lot unfortunately because of you know the band that was playing who won't ever go on to be successful. But that's here nor there. We're back here. I tell you what, we to Picklesburg. That wasn't that wasn't it Not it that was bad that was Unfortunately didn't get to try any pickle stuff, but you just we just couldn't get through to crowd People just stopping and just not even moving just sitting there I mean I take takes a lot out of you. You know just just saying easy. People might think this is easy being on the road and doing this, but I'll tell you what, it's not easy. I'm gonna say this. My prediction for the softball game coming up in about a couple hours is it was three for five. Right now, it's down to down to two to four five single and Single and you know probably a double or something like that. You don't think you're gonna get a home run anymore. I don't got none in me Work I don't got none I do I have everything. It's just Just tired, you know just just beat But I am looking forward to it. I don't know what I'm gonna do though.

Like when they come up to the plate,

am I, should I chirp them?

Yeah.

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