The Pomp And Joe Show
DREAM WEAVER - Dolphins Anthony Weaver is interviewing with Steelers today
23 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What song does Joe keep singing throughout the episode?
Does this mean we're on, Donnie? We are. Something horrible has happened here. It's Pomp and Joe and Donnie Football Friday. Donnie and I out at Bowser Chevrolet in Monroeville having the time of our lives as we always do out here. Unfortunately, with Anthony Weaver interviewing today, Donnie started singing Dream Weaver earlier, and now I can't stop singing it.
And even Limits piped in, unannounced here, unsolicited, at the beginning of this segment. Dream Weaver. I can't stop. I can't stop now, Donnie. Neither can you, and neither can he. It's one of the catchiest songs ever written. You just looked it up. Limits, do you know who wrote and sang the song Dream Weaver? No, and I never knew the song even existed until 20 minutes ago.
And now you're singing it, which indicates how catchy it is. And you're welcome. Dream Weaver. I can't stop. I can't stop doing it, Donnie. It's Gary Wright. Talk about an obscure guy who had a big hit.
Chapter 2: Who is Anthony Weaver and what is his connection to the Steelers?
Yeah, that had to be a one-hit wonder. It's like Nick Foles in the Super Bowl, right? Maybe Jarrett Stidham on Sunday. Maybe Jarrett Stidham. And I just learned this was from his 1975 album, cleverly titled The Dream Weaver. And it has Jim Keltner or Keitner on drums. I don't know what his name is, Donnie. And it came from, it was inspired by a book given to Gary Wright.
Is he related to Nick Wright from FS1? We can ask Pony. Ask Pony that or maybe Tyler Wright, the former Penguin. I don't know. George Harrison gave Gary Wright a book called Autobiography of a Yogi. And out of that came Dreamweaver. Hit number one in Canada. Number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. I don't know what was ahead of Dreamweaver. Do you? 1975, you said this was? 75.
Steelers on the way to their second consecutive Super Bowl. And out it comes. And there he is. Gary Wright on the cover of Dreamweaver. And I also realize, like so many songs, Donnie, I've been singing it wrong all these years. The lyrics are wrong. The lyrics are wrong. I sang, dream weaver, I believe we can make it through the night.
It's dream weaver, I believe you can get me through the night. Oh. Oh, dream weaver. What's the next line, Donnie? I have no idea. Go ahead, sing it to yourself. You've done it before. Dream weaver. I don't know what the next one would be. I believe we can reach the morning light. You didn't know that, did you? No. Limits? Well, Limits didn't know the song until three minutes ago.
That's the type of song where I just kind of mumble the rest of it other than Dreamweaver. My friend Dan Motzman thought that the famous Beatles song, Sergeant Pepper, that the line was, a girl with colitis goes by. Instead of a girl with colitoscope eyes, I think it goes. Do you know these things? The calliope eyes?
We all have these, Donnie, where we spend our lives, our whole lives, thinking we're singing the right lyric only to wake up one day and discover it was the wrong one. Do you have a song like that from your career?
Actually, you know what song, since we're just out of the season? Yeah. The song, Meli Kaliki Maka.
Yeah.
The Christmas song. Right.
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Chapter 3: What interesting facts are shared about the song 'Dream Weaver'?
Bing Crosby. I always thought the line was, is a wise way to... To say Merry Christmas to you? It is. It's Hawaii's way. What? It is.
Are you serious? I was with you on that one. Hawaii's way.
Unless what I saw over, like, the last month was wrong. I always thought it was a wise way. That's what I thought. And I was told it was Hawaii's way. Limits?
Are you with us on that one? Yeah, I'm completely with you on that. I knew that, like... it's a Hawaiian song and that Hawaii is in the song, but I didn't realize at that point in the song that it's Hawaii and not wise.
And then the Elton John song, the one that's on Almost Famous, the one that everybody sings with the little piano part at the beginning. Oh, Tiny Dancer. Tiny Dancer. Yeah.
Oh, my God. Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Exactly. No, I didn't think it was that famous. But Donnie, I went and there was a recent recording I saw of that song, like the original recording. And I looked at the lyrics or I heard the lyrics really for the first time. I'm like, what? I had no idea that what this song was about or even that this was the topic matter. Let's see here. Piano man, he makes his stand in the auditorium.
Looking on, she sings the songs, the words she knows, the tunes she hums. Donnie, I had no idea. It's about linens, clean linens at some point. I just know it starts with blue jean baby. Right. L.A. lady, seamstress for the band. Right. Pretty eyed. And then what limits? What kind of smile? A pirate smile. What's a pirate smile?
She married a music man?
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts feel about misheard song lyrics?
I only knew, like, select lines, and then again, I just mumble the rest. By the way, Limits, it is Hawaii's way. Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii's way to say Merry Christmas to you.
I feel like I only hear that in, like, parts of the song.
Maybe I just have selective hearing. I've never heard that in the song about Hawaii. Yet another example. All of which brings us back to Anthony Weaver, Donnie, who's in the building today. Could be there even as we speak. Who's with him? Who's doing these interviews? We know that Art and Omar. Is Andy Weidel, when he's not interviewing with the Falcons, is he there? Is Danny Rooney there?
Who do you think is in on the interviews? I feel like it would be those four.
I mean, we know... We know for sure it's two of them. We know for sure it's Art and it's Omar. They would have to work around, I guess, whatever Andy Weidel's schedule is because he is getting looks for other GM jobs. I would like to think that Danny Rooney is in on the process. You'd think, right?
I mean, it was kind of the same way how, you know, Dan Rooney had Art II in on the process for some of these guys. So, like, he saw... how it was done. You transitioned to that next level of the hierarchy. Right. Yeah. So, I mean, I would think it would be those three to four guys.
I've mentioned to Bob a couple times since this process began. that I feel like we're all wasting our time if we're looking at numbers and stats from when so-and-so was a defensive coordinator or, you know, when Mike McCarthy was calling plays in Dallas. I think. I don't think it's going to be Mike McCarthy, by the way.
I think it's going to be the guy that walks into the room and immediately there's a different feeling. That's who I think the Steelers' next coach is going to be. I don't know who it's going to be. Sheil Haas, maybe. Shula, maybe. Weaver, maybe. It's going to be that guy. And I'm not sure, as we sit here right now, Donnie, that they know.
I don't even think they have in their minds who a frontrunner is. I think they're waiting to see things like today when Anthony Weaver walks into that room. That's the guy that's going to get the job. It's the guy that walks in and Art and Omar and whoever else is in the room. when they're done with the interview, say, wow, did you feel what I felt?
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Chapter 5: What comparisons are made between different songs and their lyrics?
And they said, this guy's going to turn around the Lions? And nobody's laughing a few years later. And I don't know. I just get the feel. I could be way off on this. It also could work out to be a disaster if they did go this way. But I see Anthony Weaver. He obviously has a presence. He's a massive dude. The guy played defensive end in the NFL for, what, just under 10 years.
And the way that he speaks... It just gives me that same vibe as a Campbell.
Well, let's hear at least one of those. We're running up against the top of the hour here, but let's hear an Anthony Weaver clip. How about the Mamba clip? Do you have that one, Limits?
Yeah, you certainly, you addressed the elephant in the room, right? So my message was very clear. This is the NFL, right? There's a reason my name tag, it slides out, right? It's not in there permanently. So nobody cares. Just work harder. The comparison I gave them was where we're at just as a team, right? And as a defense, I go... I compared Nick Anderson. I'm aging myself now.
I compared Nick Anderson in like the 1995 NBA Finals game one against the Rockets where he misses four free throws in a row and they go on to get swept. And from there, like his career kind of fizzled. Unfortunately, I don't know Nick, but his nickname was became Nick the Brick Anderson. But I just remember how good he was as a player.
And then I contrasted that with Kobe in his rookie year when they were in the playoffs and he shoots four air balls, right, in critical situations. I go, well, here's where we're at from an adversity standpoint. All right, got guys being traded, right, speculation, all those things. I go, you can either be Nick Anderson and we can wallow around in self-pity.
I go, or we can just figure out why we're where we're at, keep trying to get better, which I think our guys have done, right, to date. And try to be the mamba. I don't think anybody wants to be the brick. So our goal is to be the mamba.
My God, how many strays can Nick Anderson take in one fell swoop there? The poor guy, he went to the line and tried to make some free throws, Donnie. I thought you'd like that tie into basketball. That was tremendous. And he may be that guy who walks in, Dream Weaver. All right, let's go back to something before we go to Ray Fittipaldi. Cracklin' Rose, we all know that song, Donny, right?
Cracklin' Rose. It's a Neil Diamond song along the lines of Sweet Caroline. I spent my whole life where Neil Diamond says, Cracklin' Rose. I thought he was saying for my whole life, you're a stubborn woman. The actual lyric I discovered about five years ago was Cracklin' Rose, you're a store-bought woman. What does that even mean? You're a store-bought woman. What? Like a mannequin. I guess.
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