Drive@ 5 8-4-2026

Service Master. The Drive at 5. The stories driving today's headlines. Brought to you by Service Master of Greater Pittsburgh. When disaster strikes, demand the yellow van. On 100.1 FM and AM 1020, KDCA. All right. Last hour of the show, but then the big show starts. Weiner 100. Oh, yeah. Where at EQT Park Wash? Oh, my gosh. I just realized this. I look to my right because I'm so locked in on the show that the line has formed and it's all the way out to the parking lot. People who are flanked by their canine friends, or maybe it's the other way around. The dogs came and they just brought their humans. And the winner 100 is set to begin and the Bill Gates are going to be opening very soon. But it's already like packed. The line is with people for Bark in the Park Night and Weiner 100 that's kind of folded all in to be one big thing. And it's going to get going soon. And it's going to be crazy. Absolutely crazy. So get down here if you can. There's still time. Still time to bring your dog, your winner, whatever. And we're going to have a big race coming up in just a little bit. All right, 866, 391, 10, 20. That's 866, 391, 1020, taking calls as normal. And one of the big things now, I was out yesterday, I took you through up and down, back and forth about all about. my health ills yesterday, which I'm making a little headway on it. They said to call this number and maybe they'll figure out an MRI. So I got to do that tomorrow morning. It's going to be too late today. So I took you through all that yesterday. And as yesterday was unfolding, I was obviously not on the air because I had the day off anyway. It was to help my wife. She had an appointment. So I was going to take her. It was one of those ones. Somebody else had to drive you. You weren't allowed to drive yourself. So long ago, she had scheduled that and long ago I had. taking the day off. But then I ran into my own health problem. So I went to the place and all that. And as that was unfolding, so too was Aaron Rogers, saying what he said. Now, this has become a hot button topic in quick order, right? And real fast. And where I am on this, and I want to hear you at 866, 391, 10, 20 is this. that it's got to be an all or nothing proposition. It's just it's that simple for me. You can agree, you could disagree, it could be somewhere on the middle about what Aaron Rogers said in regards to Anthony Fauci. But either you want athletes to address societal issues or you don't. You can't be selective on that. Or at least I don't think you can be. And if you are, you're a hypocrite. So if you've cheered when Steve Kerr or Colin Kaepernick or Greg Popovich, said what they said, which is the polar opposite of Aaron Rogers, then you can't, in good conscience and good faith, stand there and tell Aaron Rogers to shut up. It just doesn't work that way, or at least it doesn't work that way for me, just as if you love what Aaron Rogers said yesterday and you're cheering him and you're patting him on the back about calling Anthony Fauci a coward and other things.

You can't, when Steve Kerr wants to get into his next thing about Palestine or about Trump or about this or that, you can't in good conscience tell Steve Kerr to shut up. You just can't. You've got to be all or nothing on this. You can't pick sides. What's problematic in all of this are people who feel like, and we're a society that's increasingly doing this. People who feel like they're... opinion on politics is fact. Thus, they don't feel like they need to kind of give equal time or need to be consistent because they don't feel like it's their opinion. They feel like what they're stating is fact. And that's where it becomes scary. That's where it becomes weird. And that's kind of where it is with a lot of this. A lot of the blowback that I saw of Aaron Rogers yesterday were people who are convinced. that their side isn't necessarily opinion, but their political side is fact. And that's wrong. So in all of this, I do want to talk to you. Do you want athletes, entertainers, people like that, to just shut up and dribble? and you don't want to hear anything from them. I've had a long thing about this, and I've kind of evolved on it, to be honest with you, when a lot of this first started, and yeah, it started with Kaepernick, at least in this generation, it started through COVID and things like that, and it's still persisting with the COVID issue, i.e. Aaron Rogers, at first I was like, give me a break. You know, really, give me a break. I just want to see the games. It's an escape or whatever. But the more you really think about it, or the more I think about it, I'm not telling you what to think, the more I think about it. The more I arrive at this point is they're taxpayers. Many of them pay a lot more. Health, they lived in Allegheny County. Who knows what they'd pay? Owning a property that's pretty big. But they're taxpayers. And so why should anybody, if their employer allows it, why should anybody quell one of these people? Why should anybody, no matter what their political stance is, tell these people they need to shut up? I can't in good conscience do that, no matter what their view is. And so if you're doing that, I think that you're wrong. But if you're only looking at one side and saying they can talk because they agree with me, that's even worse. I'm here. I'm an audience for Greg Popovich. I'm an audience for Steve Kerr. I'm an audience for Kaepernick. Do I agree with them largely? No. But if you want to be an audience for those other people, you have to give the other side a platform as well. And this isn't some sort of culture war. It's not some sort of me versus ham or whatever. We all adhere to the same constitution. We all afforded those same rights. And what came out yesterday from Aaron Rogers' mouth, and then what came out in the reaction to it, I thought what came out in the reaction to it was much uglier than what came out of Aaron Rogers' mouth. If you don't like what he has to say, just ignore it. If you don't like what he has to say, then march to the beat of a different drum. But it's the most un-American thing to tell someone they got to shut up. Now, the Steelers are well within their rights if they wanted to, to tell him to shut up.

That's not a First Amendment violation. That's not cancel culture. That's nothing like that. That's being responsible for your actions. That's the way that the world works and that's the way that employment works. If the Steelers said, and they haven't, and it sounds like from what Mike McCarthy said they're not going to, if the Steelers said, we want no more of that kind of stuff or you're not going to be our quarterback anymore, you don't have a leg to stand on. That's a condition of his employment. So that argument is sort of out the window. But if they don't have a problem with it, I'm just not seeing why people who are in society or people who are regular Joe's would ever have a problem with it. Just take it as an opinion and something we never do enough anymore is just look at somebody else on the other team, other side with a different political view and go, oh, okay, we can agree to disagree. That's fine. That's what you think. But I think this. And talk it through or just ignore them. That's fine too. But instead, it feels like you have to draw your line in the sand and not just adhere to it, but push it on to someone else. That's odd. 866 391, 1020, 866 391, 1020. So, athletes, shut up and dribble or are you okay with their political stances? Your calls next.