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Instilling Toddlers with Lantern Fly Bloodlust

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A fake Behind the Music clip sends Elton John through a disastrous shift at Beto’s Pizza on Banksville.

1. Untitled Pittsburgh Sports Comedy Podcast spends this episode on lanternflies, Pittsburgh concert jokes, and Pirates fandom. 2. Hosts John and Ben Stoneman are joined later by Chris from Renegades of the Rotunda, whose pirate game-day group matters because he embodies the city’s fan-culture obsession. 3. The episode asks whether Pittsburgh can turn ordinary chaos into a useful bit, from killing lanternflies to dressing like pirates at baseball games. 4. One host says he has “killed 200” lanternflies this summer, and both hosts treat the insects as “bad buggies” at the park. 5. They say the toddlers he plays with have been given “pure insatiable bloodlust,” which he presents as a parenting success. 6. A wedding story follows about a friend’s dad who got a moth in his ear and had to go to urgent care after people tried to dump beer into his ear. 7. The Beyoncé cancellation becomes a Pittsburgh traffic joke about Jay-Z on Parkway West and the city not being ready for “all this jelly.” 8. Ed Sheeran gets criticized for doing stadium shows with a loop station, which the hosts contrast with the idea of hiring a bass player and drummer. 9. The hosts then stage a fake Behind the Music bit about Elton John working at Beto’s Pizza on Banksville before a 1994 Three Rivers show. 10. That sketch includes Bernie Taupin coaching Elton through dough, cheese, and the line “the cheese is cold.” 11. Chris from Renegades of the Rotunda says the group started when he asked if anyone wanted to “drink a bunch of beer dressed like a pirate at the Pirate Games.” 12. He calls the project his “best bad idea ever” and says people he had never met just started showing up. 13. He says he has attended nearly 50 Pirates games in a season and that Hawaiian shirt days were a major plus despite the chaos. 14. He describes walking into games with swords, bamboo flags, and a Long John Silver’s flag that was confiscated because it was not a sponsor. 15. The hosts react to Paul Skenes as a draft pick with jokes about a stache, a baby mullet, and a face that looks like a 2007 Lawrenceville bar regular. 16. They connect that look to the rush to create the next big Pittsburgh t-shirt around a first-round pick. 17. The episode’s tone stays loose, improvised, and referential, with banter, impersonation, and sketch-comedy inserts. 18. The Chris segment is more conversational, but the show keeps returning to jokes about Pittsburgh neighborhoods, sports rituals, and weird local specificity. 19. Fans of Pittsburgh sports satire and city-specific absurdity will get the most out of it. 20. Listeners wanting serious analysis of games or players should probably skip it.

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A bug rant that grows into pizza, baseball, and Pittsburgh nonsense.

It starts with lanternflies and turns irritation into a small, gleeful purge, with toddlers drafted into the fun and every bad bug treated like a marked target.

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For when lanternflies, pizza, and Pittsburgh spite all deserve equal airtime.

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