Bears at Lions - What's at Stake?

Summary

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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – Bears at Lions: What’s at Stake?

Podcast: Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Host: Dan Bernstein, with Matt Abbatacola
Date: September 12, 2025
Episode Theme: What’s at stake for the Bears as they visit Detroit? Honest assessment of the Bears’ early season (especially in contrast to division rivals), a breakdown of last night’s Chicago Sky game uproar, and the show’s signature direct listener interaction and Friday picks.

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Episode Overview

This episode is an unfiltered, humor-laced, and pointed look at the precarious state of the Chicago Bears as they head into a showdown with the Detroit Lions, following a difficult season opener and early disappointment in the NFC North. Dan and Matt break down what needs to change, what can realistically be expected, and why this game is critical for the team’s credibility, if not their playoff hopes. The show also dives into the Chicago Sky's organizational disarray after protests at their home finale and delivers Feedback Friday: a rapid-fire listener mailbag segment. The episode wraps with gambling picks and the two hosts riffing about city life, nostalgia, and personal quirks.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bears at Lions – What’s On the Line?

(Timestamps: 06:05–15:40)

• The Bears' season is already on the brink after just two weeks, especially with the Packers looking strong. Dan and Matt agree the Bears’ chances to win the division already look dead if they lose in Detroit.

• Their focus: This is less about the result (few expect a win) and more about if the Bears can look like “a professional football team,” execute offensively, and show evidence that week one was a fluke.

  • Dan Bernstein [07:05]:
    “They have to prove they can master the fundamentals…look like they know what they’re doing on offense for the entire game—not just one drive.”

• The offense’s ongoing procedural issues (pre-snap penalties, confusion in the huddle) are dissected. Dan reads out comments where both coaches and Caleb Williams appear to be “taking the blame” for others—a troubling pattern for week two.

  • Matt Abbatacola [10:00]:
    “We have never said the expectation is to win. We don’t care about the outcome. Play well and lose, and I’ll be okay—that tells me there’s something to build on.”

• Discussion on crowd noise in Detroit’s Ford Field, concerns about having to use silent counts (which benefits the defense), and whether the team shows enough discipline and conditioning.

2. Dysfunction and Fan Revolt: Chicago Sky

(Timestamps: 20:44–28:10)

• Dan delivers a blistering critique of the Sky’s organization after seeing a full-throated fan protest (“Sell the team!” and “Fire Jeff!” chants) at the last home game. He accuses the team of failing Angel Reese, mishandling PR, and risking the loyalty of its remaining diehard fans.

  • Dan Bernstein [23:05]:
    “This is about an organizational rot...so far beyond basketball. It’s very close to turning off what you have left of your diehard fans. Appreciate them. Listen to them. Don’t listen to me, but I know a last gasp and a cry for help when I see it.”

• Matt presses for details; Dan explains it’s not just roster mismanagement but also a “bush league” approach to facilities, player support, and PR.

3. Feedback Friday – Listener Interaction

(Timestamps: 28:18–46:40)

• The hosts field emails ranging from quirky music taste critiques (Matt owned up to not knowing Beck or Tool—his wife and listeners roast him) to weighty philosophical debates about weighted vests on personal walks.
• Fun banter about generational knowledge gaps, strange fitness fads, and personal style (Dan’s notorious “assless” Adidas pants make an appearance).
• Nostalgia: Listeners recall live remotes and wild stories, like drinking with Terry Boers and limo mishaps (“We had to relieve ourselves in Solo cups!” [41:13]).

4. DBU Picks & Gambling Talk

(Timestamps: 49:53–54:20)

• Dan and Matt give out their “DBU” sponsored picks for college football (e.g., Auburn to cover vs South Alabama, Vanderbilt points and over vs South Carolina).
• Bears player prop: Dan is betting under 14.5 carries for DeAndre Swift, citing a likely committee and lack of production.
  • Matt Abbatacola [53:20]:
    “That’s a good pick, Daniel.”

5. Friday Fun Bag – Odds and Ends

(Timestamps: 54:14–74:47)

• The hosts riff on daily annoyances and observations: Metra train etiquette, Amazon Go stores (“It just knows what you take—how does it know? I’m not going back!” [59:44]), and personal habits.
• Light teasing about Dan’s aversion to using proper luggage (“Why a Jewel [grocery] bag? It was there!” [47:19]).
• Favorite city oddities: from “Urine Lane” in downtown Chicago to solo dice games on the street.
• Final fun: trivia on 1980s culture, Goonies and CHUD, game show hosts, and upcoming weekend plans (Dan’s going to “try the hot fishing tips” in Wayne, Illinois).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Dan Bernstein [12:12]:
  “Not only more prepared, more in control of the game…Still bothered. And I have circled that ‘when it rains, it pours’ answer. I hated that—the passivity and the fatalism.”

• Matt Abbatacola [14:51]:
  “That is the minimum the Bears have to do this week—play well enough to keep the dogs at bay and right the ship.”

• On the Sky fan protest:

  • Dan Bernstein [23:05]:
    “What they should—if you’re the Sky—you are blessed to have enough fans in that building that care enough to do what they did last night. Feel lucky as hell people haven’t given up on this garbage organization.”
  • [25:00]:
    “This is so far beyond whether or not [Angel Reese] can shoot…this is about organizational rot.”

• Feedback Friday Banter:

  • [29:53] Dan: “I love yacht rock…your phone is picking it up now and it’s the algorithm.”
  • [31:07] Matt: “Kiss my ass!” (in response to listeners roasting his music tastes)
  • [41:14] Matt:
    “We had to relieve ourselves in Solo cups.”

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Important Segments & Timestamps

• Bears-Lions stakes, offensive/organizational criticism: 06:05–15:40
• Sky fan protest and organizational critique: 20:44–28:10
• Feedback Friday: Listener shoutouts, life stories, banter: 28:18–46:40
• Gambling picks (DBU picks): 49:53–54:20
• Random fun bag/odds and ends (downtown life, quirks, plans): 54:14–74:47

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Tone and Style

Direct, irreverent, and personal—Dan and Matt combine blunt Chicago sports analysis with humor, self-deprecation, and genuine affection for listener interaction. The show stays unvarnished and conversational, peppered with sharp jabs at both sports institutions and each other. It’s for fans who crave real talk over mindless optimism.

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Listen If You Want...

• No-spin honesty on the latest with the Bears and other Chicago teams
• Candid perspective on organizational dysfunction (across all sports)
• Old-school sports radio fun—stories, listener mail, offbeat city-life asides
• A taste of Chicago sports media legends doing what they do best, unfiltered.

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Transcript

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[Dan Bernstein]

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on.

[Matt Abaticola]

312 Sports.

[Dan Bernstein]

Happy Friday to you on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered, a 312 sports podcast. Today's episode brought to you in partnership with my bookie. I'm Dan Bernstein. That's our executive producer, Matt Abaticola.

[Matt Abaticola]

Hello.

[Dan Bernstein]

And indeed, as our dear late friend Lynn Bramer used to say, it's Friday. It is great to be alive. And I have to apologize to you, not only you, Matty, because I am acutely over caffeinated and I am also acutely over garlic'd. So I apologize.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, what'd you eat?

[Dan Bernstein]

I made chicken Vesuvio last night.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh. So minimum 30 cloves of garlic.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I had the four big cloves and then. And I chopped them all up. And as I was putting it in, because I browned the drumsticks I only use, I use, I like to use the drums. And I browned them all off really well in the pan. I got all the good fond going in the pan and then I put in the wine.

[Matt Abaticola]

Fond is the little brown bits that stick to the bottom of the pan, folks.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, you have to deglaze with a little bit of white wine and that whole thing. We put the potatoes in that are already done. And then I'm like, all right, I got all this garlic chopped and I was about halfway through the garlic. I'm like, that's plenty of garlic.

[Matt Abaticola]

And you just threw it in.

[Dan Bernstein]

I just said, screw it. And I put all of it.

[Matt Abaticola]

Whatever you do, you should always add at least two more cloves of garlic.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. Well, you would have been proud of me.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. Good. Are you still at a point where you cook the dinner for yourself? Like it's like your solo dinner or.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's generally. Yeah, I'm better.

[Matt Abaticola]

Because you cook things for the family.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm going to bed earlier now. That's been a big part of my lifestyle change, is I'm not keeping the hours I used to eat. I'm going to bed earlier.

[Matt Abaticola]

What time do you go to bed now?

[Dan Bernstein]

Like around. I'll go up to bed usually around between 10 and 10:30. And then I'll. I'll be on my phone for a little bit and I'll watch a couple of videos and then I put on sleep music.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay. All right. So you're. You're asleep by 11. Try to be where normally you were eating dinner by 11.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Who knew?

[Matt Abaticola]

So now with the kids out of the house.

[Dan Bernstein]

Zoe's out of the house.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, Zoe's home. So you're cooking for Beth and Zoe and your own dinner.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I told Zoe, you know, you can. You're on your own, okay? You're old enough. I'm not. I'm not coming home and, and, and making you dinner every night if I so happen to be making something for Beth and say, I'll just double it. If you want some, that's fine.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And half the time Beth is just going to eat ramen or have ice cream for dinner, and I'm just.

[Matt Abaticola]

So you don't even cook dinner for Beth?

[Dan Bernstein]

Because I do. If she asks, she asks. Yeah. If she says, make me the pasta with the lemon and the arugula and the shallots.

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[Matt Abaticola]

It takes two seconds because, like, old school was dinner for yourself. Late, and then you cooked. So you're doing two dinners a night.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's not that bad. Okay, No, I just told him, I said, I'm not doing this anymore. I don't have to. You guys are adults and I'm not treating you like children. And that goes for the wife, too.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, so you're over caffeinated on garlic coffee.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm over caffeinated, I'm over garlic, and damn it, I'm ready to rot.

[Matt Abaticola]

But it's not garlic coffee. It's just. You're over caffeinated on coffee.

[Dan Bernstein]

Although I keep getting ads for mushroom coffee and these weird powders that all.

[Matt Abaticola]

Of these guys are. I think Jesus did.

[Dan Bernstein]

He's like, yeah, it's expensive, but it gets your chakras in line. Like, get off my phone.

[Matt Abaticola]

Like your sex stuff, whatever.

[Dan Bernstein]

Get off my phone. I don't know what you're selling me. I don't know what you're selling me.

[Matt Abaticola]

What Are you looking at? You're getting all the loan things and.

[Dan Bernstein]

Now watching my phone, I'm getting texts from Venezuela saying that my.

[Matt Abaticola]

Is it Ozzy?

[Dan Bernstein]

It's probably Ozzy telling me that $63,000 loan has just been approved from him. What you doing?

[Matt Abaticola]

I told stop borrowing money from Ozzy. If you need something, let me know.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's from the Maduro administration. I don't know why I called on the board. Yes. Bears at Lions. What's at stake? We will answer that question. I want to talk about what happened at the sky game. Last night was hysterical.

[Matt Abaticola]

Season's over.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, but it was kind of awesome. I mean, like officially, what the hardcore fans were doing last night at the sky game. I don't know if you're following some of the stuff that was going on. Oh, my God, it's Feedback Friday. It is Feedback Friday.

[Matt Abaticola]

And because.

[Dan Bernstein]

Feedback.

[Matt Abaticola]

Feedback Friday.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, Feedback Friday because we did have some feedback about making sure that we pronounce that correctly. We have DBU picks that are brought to you by my bookie and we'll do some Friday odds and ends for you as well. Speaking of my bookie, you know the one guy in the group chat, it hits that five leg parlay week one and then doesn't shut up about it the rest of the year. Even a three leg or a four leg, let alone these parlays, you know, they come in, people like to brag about them. It could be you. It could be you bragging. Because my bookie makes it easy to get in on the action. College ball, NFL super contests, Survivor pools, all the spreads, the player props and in game lines you want under one roof, you know the code by now. If you're new to my bookie, use it. Dbu, when you use that code, any bet you choose, up to $500 fully covered, make your play. If it doesn't hit, you get it right back when you opt in using the bet back bonus token. So do it with the code dbu. No better time to jump in. No better place to play. Football's back. You can make some money with my bookie. Those picks are coming up a little bit later on in this episode of dbu. So this is another divisional game for the Bears and seeing what we saw from the Green Bay packers over two games, this whole division thing. And we knew they weren't going to win the division.

[Matt Abaticola]

Correct.

[Dan Bernstein]

But I didn't think we'd know two weeks into September that they definitely weren't going to win the division. And we could know that. By 4:00 clock on Sunday.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, if, yeah, if they, they drop to 0 and 2, which I anticipate a loss in Detroit, that's. Yeah, that, that division race is, is done for the Bears. It really is. And again, people are gonna say, oh, it's only two games, you two are idiots and you're morons and stop. You know, that's fine. Again, we can see what we see and we can have our opinions on it. And I just, I think that what I saw last night, Dan from the packers, is that the top of the division is a further away from the bottom of the division than I thought it was going to be. And the Bears are at the bottom. And I even said that the Bears could have a really positive season, five wins last year, could have a really positive season this year and bring a lot of hope for the future and still finish fourth in this division. I think that's going to happen. But I just, I didn't anticipate the gap to be as big as it's going to be.

[Dan Bernstein]

Here's the opportunity the Bears have on Sunday. They have to prove that they can master the fundamentals of running. What they have to run, they have to look like they know what they're doing on offense for the entire game, not just one drive. The drives have to make sense. The play calling has to matter. The ball's gotta be out. The pre snap penalties have to be gone. Good luck with that in Ford Field. It is ridiculously loud and some of the stuff that I've been reading and hearing about what is being said about the problems bodes ill for a game in that building. Let me just read you something. This is Caleb Williams talking about the issues that they're having in response to what Ben Johnson said. If we're having procedure issues, you look at the play caller and the quarterback first and foremost. We heard that from him. It's really the responsibility of everybody else from there to make sure that we're getting it right. So Johnson signaled out play caller and quarterback. What did the quarterback say? He said this. I got this from the Trib. He said some of it is obviously on me being able to maybe say it louder in the huddle or maybe not be as aggressive on punching the gas, on the cadence. I think, you know, we talked about Ben Johnson taking a grenade for Caleb when it came to the timeout.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. That he didn't get the play in in time.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sounds to me now like Caleb is doing the same for one of his offensive linemen. Maybe not be as aggressive on punching the gas, on the cadence.

[Matt Abaticola]

Well, which offensive lineman is that?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I think it's 73.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is that. Is that Jonah Jackson? The Bears will have every opportunity here in a very difficult place to play to prove that they can do this. But good luck, if you're on a.

[Matt Abaticola]

Silent count, which he talked about on Monday or on Tuesday, that they're going to have to go to a silent count and work on that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, all silent count does is tell the pass rushers when to get off. Yeah, that's what. However you do it. The tap, the head bob, leg lift, the combination of tap, head bob, leg lift, clap. However you want to do it.

[Matt Abaticola]

Sachet.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, that. Let's not forget sashay while we're throwing in verbs. I'm very concerned about. But this is. This is an opportunity. I don't look at this as glass half empty. I look at this as a glass half full. Here is your chance to tighten it up. Here's your chance to prove that week one was indeed the aberration that so many people want it to be. You go to Ford Field and you have. You run a tight ship. That tells me something. Even if you lose, and I think they're going to lose, but it's not about the outcome. Yes. About the quality of their play.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's what I want to reiterate to so many people that. That think, oh, we're just doom and gloom and want to be negative and, you know, hate the Bears, whatever it might be. We have never said the expectation is to win the game. We don't care about the. We don't care about the outcome. I didn't care about the outcome Monday night. Play well. I didn't. Yes, play well. Play well and lose and I'll be okay. That, hey, there's something the next week to build on. There's something in the future with this regime and with this team and with this quarterback. I don't care about the outcome right now because I don't anticipate this team going to the playoffs and making a run for the championship. That's not going to happen this year. But play well, and as we simplify it for. You don't look like the Bears.

[Dan Bernstein]

I was surprised to read that Williams was open and honest enough to say that he needs to say the play louder in the huddle. So some people are literally. You were at home and people weren't hearing the play.

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't get it. I see.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think he's lying. I think he's protecting his linemen. I really do. I don't. I think they knew the play.

[Matt Abaticola]

So we have now a second instance of someone taking a bullet in our. In our. In what we think. I thought. I thought. I thought. I thought Johnson was taking. Taking the bullet.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'll object to that particular term at the moment, if that's okay. If that's all right.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes, sir.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. Just. I don't. I don't want to be that guy.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oops.

[Dan Bernstein]

But it's okay. I know you didn't mean it that way. I said grenade, and it always gets ugly. Because it's football and it's simulacrum of war, and we tend to do that. So.

[Matt Abaticola]

So now here's a second instance of someone taking the blame.

[Dan Bernstein]

There you go.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Nice.

[Matt Abaticola]

For someone else. So we have the coach do it for the quarterback. The quarterback doing it for the line.

[Dan Bernstein]

And already. Then once that starts going. That's what bad play does. Bad play causes you to burn through these things already. You're not supposed to do this all after one game. One game shouldn't require everybody covering everybody else's ass. Play better so you don't have to do that.

[Matt Abaticola]

See, and that's the thing, too. I anticipated them to be more prepared for football games with Ben Johnson in charge.

[Dan Bernstein]

Not only more prepared, more in control of the game, of an opener at home, more in control. I'm still bothered. And I have circled that when it rains, it pours. I hated that answer. Yeah, I hated that. I hated the. The passivity and the fatalism.

[Matt Abaticola]

And I still.

[Dan Bernstein]

That answer.

[Matt Abaticola]

I still read today that it was like, oh, people just aren't taking into account the changes in what happens in the preseason and how that impacts the team, but not every team. So is it just some teams? Like, I don't get it. Like, the Colts look pretty good on Sunday. They put up 33 points, beat a bad Dolphins team.

[Dan Bernstein]

They didn't punt.

[Matt Abaticola]

You know, both the Ravens and the Bills look good. And they're.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, well, they got.

[Matt Abaticola]

You know, they got the. And, like those MVP caliber quarterbacks. Well, you know, Daniel Jones, quarterback for the Colts.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, wait, my filter's not on. Hold on. Oh, no, I'm actually. I'm literally unfiltered. This can't be good. My wife's gonna kill me.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, I was gonna ask you if you weren't feeling well.

[Dan Bernstein]

Wait, hold on there.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, yeah. Jesus.

[Dan Bernstein]

So much better.

[Matt Abaticola]

So different.

[Dan Bernstein]

So much better.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's like I'm not even working with you.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know. I just got 10 years younger. Isn't that Great.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. Nicely done.

[Dan Bernstein]

See? Okay. Don't let me do that again.

[Matt Abaticola]

I won't. Yeah, I checked mine.

[Dan Bernstein]

I should.

[Matt Abaticola]

I should verbally ask you, hey, Dan. Yeah. Put your filter on, Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

You put your face on.

[Matt Abaticola]

But you know, and so you can. Yeah, sure. Maybe the Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson thing isn't. Isn't fair at this point, but Daniel Jones looked pretty damn good. They looked pretty prepared to play a football game on Sunday.

[Dan Bernstein]

And when you tune in to forward progress today, not only are you going to get what you get for every unique Bears opponent and that is a list today of the top 10 lions.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'm so excited about. This is really good.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did the top 10 Vikings going to do the top 10 Lions today. But also some X and O stuff that we're seeing from the packers that is daunting.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. These are things that we learned watching that game last night. Things we learned about the Packers.

[Dan Bernstein]

We will do that and. But I think here the big picture for the Bears is the opportunity, the opportunity to make sure that the remaining glass half full Bears optimists or default setting being things should be better. Or maybe the low expectations crowd isn't going to be dragged over. To those of us who are more worried and more panicky and or have high expectations. That's the, that is the minimum that the Bears have to do this week. Play well enough to keep the dogs.

[Matt Abaticola]

At bay and right the ship.

[Dan Bernstein]

Woof, woof. Yeah. Just be better at football.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because a new coach, a new system, his hand picked assistance, everything we discussed as enough ingredients in this stew to create something better. We didn't see it in week one.

[Matt Abaticola]

No. Again, not demanding or expecting or calling for a victory in Detroit. I'm not worried about the outcome of it. I don't care about the outcome for this season. I want them to look like a professional football team. Period.

[Dan Bernstein]

On more than one drive.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. Yes. On more than one drive. That's a great caveat to add.

[Dan Bernstein]

And more than one drive. Something else that I noted in last week's game that we should be watching in this one. I know it's indoor, it's climate controlled, but the weather in the first game shouldn't have made a difference in their. In their ability to stay sharp and conditioned and springy and twitchy for the full 60 minutes on the clock. I thought they got tired.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, you kept, you kept saying that.

[Dan Bernstein]

I did that.

[Matt Abaticola]

You thought they got tired. And there was only one. One cramping issue I think was with Wright.

[Dan Bernstein]

I thought both lines got tired.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I will be if that happens again and if that is scouted. Because that would be something that Dan Campbell looks at and will say, look, we're going to wear him down and. Or run tempo. We're going to keep the same groups on the field. If you see them running tempo at times or just picking a drive where it's bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, not necessarily four minute offense, three minute, two minute, that. That could be an indication that they're trying to take advantage of what they think is a conditioning gap.

[Matt Abaticola]

Have you, have you looked at a snap count yet for the players?

[Dan Bernstein]

I have not. Fishbane should have it. He usually does. Kevin Fishbane, we gotta look at that.

[Matt Abaticola]

Because I think. And I could have been wrong and just with my eyes and watching that, I thought the rotation was pretty, pretty slim in the first half.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I didn't see Billings for a while.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, that was one name we talked about because he.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, I just, I don't know if he.

[Matt Abaticola]

Because you asked, where's Billings? And I said Montana. Yeah, but then you didn't respond to that, which I was really. It was hurtful, Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, it's not.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's hurtful.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, sorry. I'm not even. What do you want me send you? The. The eye roll emoji?

[Matt Abaticola]

No. Just like even a fake laugh?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I love, I love, by the way, the new very tired eye roll emoji. I don't even know what the name of it is.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, is that the one you sent me?

[Dan Bernstein]

There's the regular eye roll and there's the eye roll, like with the, with the eyebrows up. That just looks so. The exhausted one.

[Matt Abaticola]

It was like a hangover.

[Dan Bernstein]

I love that one.

[Matt Abaticola]

Like a hangover.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, I've got the snap count. What do you want to know? You want to know defensive line. Defensive line, snap count.

[Matt Abaticola]

Because that was one thing in particular. We talked about that you were, you were highlighting what you thought was tired.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, defensive line, Diodangbo, 82%.

[Matt Abaticola]

You know what? And we. I, you know, I haven't mentioned him.

[Dan Bernstein]

He was good.

[Matt Abaticola]

He had a good game. He was good. He had a really, really good game.

[Dan Bernstein]

The penalty was stupid. Keep your hands away from the quarterback's face.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Grady Jarrett, 82%, Montez Sweat, 77. Gervon Dexter, 62. Now it drops Billings, 38%, Passinone, who had a sack in there, 23%, Chris Williams, 20% and Dominique Robinson, 18%. Okay, so they mixed it in a little bit.

[Matt Abaticola]

A little bit. Yeah. But, but it was, it was later in the first half, if anything, the.

[Dan Bernstein]

Only guys playing every snap, Brisker, Edmonds, byard, Sewell played 98%. 55 of the 56. Tyreek Stevenson 54 overall.

[Matt Abaticola]

He had a good game by it overall. Had a good game. Really nice tackle to go line.

[Dan Bernstein]

So we're going to break it all down.

[Matt Abaticola]

That was Jonathan Owens.

[Dan Bernstein]

Owens, the X's and. Oh yeah, he had the one on the two point conversion.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

But the X's and O's we are going to really get into and particularly some of my, my packers fears. Looking at how simple they're able to keep it.

[Matt Abaticola]

I think one thing is that Micah Parsons is going to play more as the season goes on. That's a bad thing for everyone.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. If he's healthy the whole year.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did you see his pass rush win rate last night?

[Matt Abaticola]

I mean it had to be over 90%.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, no, no. 30%, which is huge.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, the, the.

[Dan Bernstein]

On every snap. Not even at home. His. His win rate was 30 and he defeated his individual blocker or blockers.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

That includes defeating double teams. You're doing that 30% of the time. How do you play offense against that?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, I think. Where's he at? He's probably at like half the snaps right now or at most half the snaps.

[Dan Bernstein]

Good luck.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Matt Abaticola]

I did not.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did you see him in the sky game? And I can't say I'm following this closely but good for the hardcore sky fans for just giving it to their garbage organization to be to come to a game and everybody had signs to, you know, Angel Reese was right. Free Angel Reese. Sell the team. Sell the team. Sell the team. At one point there were chants going of fire Jeff. That's Jeff Paglielka. He's the general manager who is his moves have put the team in this position. And I had it on our list on our topic bank there's and I just had written sky wtf?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because oh my God. What they should if you're the sky, you are blessed to have enough fans in that building that care enough to do what they did last night. And you better look at that. You better feel lucky as hell. Feel lucky that people haven't given up on this garbage organization yet. The way they've handled everything. The way they've handled. They're only at knife point to decide to find a practice facility that is up to standards and begin to build that. They're the laughingstock of this league. Absolute laughingstock. What they've done with and to Angel Reese, the lack of protection for her, the mixed signals that are sent when she came out recently and told all the bear truths about this team and how they've screwed up everything around her. Their reliance on a 37 year old Courtney Vander Sloot when they haven't really brought in players to support Angel Reese and make the most of her and her game. Make the most of Camila Cardo. So I don't think Angel Reese has a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination. But how would you know based on what they've put around her? The lack of empowerment of players and the lack of continuity. The lack of a meaningful investment in an organizational culture. You saw it last night. The fans made it impossible for them. Apparently the Jumbotron there could not avoid the video board. Could not avoid somebody without a sell the team banner that was being shown. Even the opponents were smiling and laughing because they couldn't believe what was going on.

[Matt Abaticola]

Really.

[Dan Bernstein]

They could not believe it. How brutal it was. But keep it up. And I just this is I hope I. And I can't. I'm not here claiming to be any kind of Big sky fan. I'm not. That would be a lie. But I know a horseshit organization when I see it and that's one right now. And I want. I hope they appreciate that their fans still care because they keep doing this. They're not going to. This might have been the last stand. This might have been the last full throated, the final home game of the season in an absolutely lost season where you created a conflicted and sour environment for everybody there, just tone deaf public relations from start to finish, everything mishandled. And Angel Reese, is there somebody who could be a real star and somebody who isn't afraid to be herself to own her brand? I'm not going to quibble with the, with the holes in her game because they're there. But this is so far beyond basketball. It's so far beyond whether or not she can shoot and which rebounds she grabs. This is about an organizational rot that is very close to turning off what you have left of your die hard fans. And you've still got them for now. Appreciate them. Listen to them. Don't listen to me. Don't listen to me because I don't count myself among those diehards. But, but, but I know a last gasp and a cry for help when I see it and hear it. And that's what that was. So for whatever it's worth to you, whatever this investment is to Michael Alter and everybody else involved, why do you own the team? What's the point? What's the purpose? Why do you own the team? Why did your championship coach and championship players leave as soon as they could? Why did they flee like rats from a sinking ship? Why?

[Matt Abaticola]

Why?

[Dan Bernstein]

What is. What are players telling each other around the league about this organization? And do you care? That's what we're going to find out. It's just I don't like it for their fans because I know that there are some people that really, really do care and they care more than I do. But given the opportunity, I have to call something out. I'm happy to do it because it sucks what they've become, how they've let it happen, how they haven't stopped any of these bad things from getting worse because either they don't know or they don't care or both. I don't know which is worse and I don't know where on the continuum it gets worse.

[Matt Abaticola]

Well, I think not caring is probably worse than not knowing. Not knowing just means you're stupid. Not caring means you're a bad person. But let me ask you this, because I have and I haven't. I checked into the WNBA and I'll be completely transparent about it with Caitlin Clark and then awesome to watch when she is, you know, hurting with multiple injuries, then out for the season. I've checked out of WNBA action. So what, what bad things outside of not building a proper roster? Like why did championship caliber people leave the organization? Like what bad things are they. Are they doing here for the Chicago Sky?

[Dan Bernstein]

People don't feel appreciated. People don't feel as if there, there's. It seems like everyone's looking over their shoulder all the time. Not to mention the fact that the roster construction itself is, is makes no sense and they haven't brought in the right people and kept the right people for the right reasons. Apparently the, the trades that were made to allow them to draft Angel Reese and, and Cardos were, were done well enough to get them here, but building around them, relying on a point guard who is much closer to the end of a career than the beginning of a career. And they know when they're outclassed every night. They know when the other team simply has better players. But the suspension of Angel Reese for saying what she said long after the fact, the way that the team, and this is what's bothered a lot of people is that from a public relations standpoint, they've begged for coverage. They've begged for it. Come cover us, be a part of this. They want people to come to their events, you know, and their events are bush league. Their overall pr, what they do, the smallest things, the logos that they show, the way they allow the media to have the best opportunity to do their job is bush league. And the way they shut down questioning and they try to protect Angel Reese paternalistically, which is not the way to do it. She doesn't need a parent.

[Matt Abaticola]

Doesn't seem like it yet.

[Dan Bernstein]

Does it need that instead of shutting her up, listen to her. The organization would be in a much, much better place. And there are things that I don't know and I know a lot of this from what I read and from what I hear from people who really do care deeply about this team. It's unfortunate and I feel bad for the fans, but last night was a seminal moment. At the last opportunity that the fans had, the last home game of this year, they all, they were crying out to be heard. I just want them heard.

[Matt Abaticola]

And that, yeah, that was the, not only the final home game and final game of the season, Correct? Yeah, they're done for the year.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Time for feedback Friday.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. So this is something that we'll do every Friday. And feedback B, A, C, K feedback Friday. We will share some. Now emails. Remember, you can email the show both shows. [e-mail] [e-mail] Musicians and music teachers, direct all your emails to Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

Drumming instructors. Okay, can I. Can I start with something here?

[Matt Abaticola]

Has it impacted your inbox yet?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, more. And I don't know if you've gotten the same ones because I don't see who's emailing both of us.

[Matt Abaticola]

I look and see if it's just me or just you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, everyone's angry with you, first of all, for not knowing enough about Beck and. Or tool. One of those should be on your radar. Okay, well, unless you're just pretending to not know or like Beck.

[Matt Abaticola]

You know who else was? You can add that list of. Of questioning me. My wife Natalie.

[Dan Bernstein]

She.

[Matt Abaticola]

I got text messages because she listens during the day and she's like, how do you not know Beck? And then it was like, do you really not know? Oh, no, it was first, do you not. How do you not know Tool? Then it was like, do you really not know who Beck is? These are the texts I'm getting on the way home.

[Dan Bernstein]

She's right. She's right. And she's representative of much of the Dan Bernstein unfiltered listenership. Who's saying, come on, you can't 80s.

[Matt Abaticola]

Rap or country music? And you can, you can tell me. Oh, well, Becca's got some, you know, he teases with and outskirts of country. No, it's not country music. That's what I listen to. I listen to 80s rap country music. And now because of you. Damn it. Yacht rock.

[Dan Bernstein]

Shit, I love yacht rock.

[Matt Abaticola]

Like Apple playlist for yacht rock.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, now that I'm saying it, your phone is picking it up and it's the algorithm.

[Matt Abaticola]

But I. I'm always hitting fast forward, though. Like, this song sucks.

[Dan Bernstein]

As long as Thunder island by Jay Ferguson.

[Matt Abaticola]

I like Jay Ferguson.

[Dan Bernstein]

You can't like Jay Ferguson.

[Matt Abaticola]

I do.

[Dan Bernstein]

He looks like Ron Jeremy.

[Matt Abaticola]

I. I just like the different island. I like the COVID of his. His album cover there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Chest hair.

[Matt Abaticola]

And I. I've been listening a lot too, of course, to my guy who I told you about last week. He'll kick. He'll whoop your ass. Come on, you remember who.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, Tom Jones.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes, my Tom Jones playlist.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know you love Tom Jones.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's called Tom Jones of whoop your ass.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's my playlist with his wang. So he needs to come over and beat me with his giant Welsh member. It's not unusual to be beaten with.

[Matt Abaticola]

Members of Giant Welsh members. It's not on you. So you know what? Be mad at me all you want. Fine. Because I'm sure I could listen. Dozen country people out and wings a.

[Dan Bernstein]

Dildo at your head. Oh, boy, there's a theme here.

[Matt Abaticola]

I think there is a theme. Wings and dildos.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. I keep getting hit in the head with things I don't know. I must bring it upon myself.

[Matt Abaticola]

But all your emailers that are angry at me for not being well versed on Tool and Beck, I could probably name a dozen country people you don't know. So it's just your preference.

[Dan Bernstein]

We got this feedback.

[Matt Abaticola]

Kiss my ass.

[Dan Bernstein]

This from our friend Tim on the south side. He said, enjoying the show, having my coffee on the patio, and just saw a guy walking his dog wearing a weighted vest. I wanted to stop him and say, what do you think this is actually doing to improve your health? Now, first of all, it does nothing to improve your health because we know that it's been tested and it doesn't do anything. And why was his dog wearing a weighted vest? That was my other concern. Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. What he was doing in my pajamas, I'll never know. But he said, I saw a guy walking his dog wearing a weighted vest. If you're putting a weighted vest on your dog, that's a bigger problem.

[Matt Abaticola]

Maybe he doesn't like his dog, right?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, no, maybe his dog's fat.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And he's thinking that the dog just needs extra work. No, it doesn't do anything.

[Matt Abaticola]

So it's been proven that adding weight to your body and walking doesn't make you walk.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's the walking, the walking.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. Walking is the best thing you can.

[Dan Bernstein]

Do for yourself, right? Walking over your weighted vest doesn't do anything more than the walking.

[Matt Abaticola]

Right. If you're struggling to exercise and you've like done that, you've gone to the gym or these new fangled workout routines, just walk, get outside and walk.

[Dan Bernstein]

There maybe is some unique use for one in a physical therapy setting in. In some kind of intensive direct sports training setting. But you just wearing one to add weight to your regular doesn't do anything.

[Matt Abaticola]

So the average, average Karen, average Kevin that go out and walk with vest.

[Dan Bernstein]

On you, why it's got to be Karen and Kevin. It works.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I'm mad But it doesn't do anything. Let me say this too. I believe in the Bader Meinhof phenomenon. When we refer to that. It is the idea that when you become familiarized with something, you notice it more, even though the actual frequency hasn't gone up.

[Matt Abaticola]

So that's called the Baader Meinhof.

[Dan Bernstein]

Bader Meinhof phenomenon. Say you buy a car. Say you buy a white Chevy and then for some reason you notice a lot of white Chevys.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, that always happens with a word. You hear a word you don't hear often, and then you see that word three times the next week.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yep.

[Matt Abaticola]

And that's the beta.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's the Beter Meinhof phenomenon. However, in the case of weighted vests, it's not entirely that, because it is a fad, you are seeing more of them. Oh, So I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

So when the.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it's both.

[Matt Abaticola]

Bader Meinhof phenomenon is not the Bader Meinhof phenomenon.

[Dan Bernstein]

Correct. Doo dee dee dee dee. So I think it's a little bit of both. There are more weighted vests, and you're more aware of. Of there being more and more weighted vests. Okay, There.

[Matt Abaticola]

So we're getting douchier as a society.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, that's because of weighted vests and mushroom coffee.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

And whatever. These dirt people are selling literal cans of dirt for $8 and telling you it's some sort of special coffee. It's dirt. And not the dirt from neuralviz that people smoke. That's another topic, by the way.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

My favorite YouTube show in the world outside of ours.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, The John. John O'Reilly.

[Dan Bernstein]

The John C. Reilly. No, our show is. Is this thing Neural viz. Which is an absolute hoot.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's unbelievable. But that's neither here nor there. That's the number two YouTube show, though, for me.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes, yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

N E U R A L V I Z. It's a universe. You gotta watch them all.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right. Probably not, but thank you.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right. What you got?

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, I don't know. Nothing.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, you don't have anything for.

[Matt Abaticola]

Well, I do. Go ahead. I got stuff. I thought. I thought you said you had a ton. I do let you roll with it.

[Dan Bernstein]

I do. I got it.

[Matt Abaticola]

I love when you interact with the people.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, coming in makes me happy. Still coming in as we speak.

[Matt Abaticola]

They're your people and well.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, no, it says. I. I mean to express to you my appreciation for the new pods.

[Matt Abaticola]

Huh.

[Dan Bernstein]

And in particular, whatever strain of tropical fever overtook your executive functions when you decided to undertake your weekly post game autopsy on an immediate basis. This is from Jake. He says is such a thing necessary, advisable, healthy? No. But anything worth doing is worth doing to excess. And so for abetting the collective football disorder of an exhausted and defeated fandom, I salute you. Thank you, Jake. The immediate Bears post game on YouTube is a thing. It was a thing last week. It's going to be a thing this week. We look forward to it. I don't want to take up all of the middle of your beautiful Sunday, but we'll be on for a significant period of time immediately after the game on YouTube. Whatever happens on Sunday, Jake. And thank you for being there.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. Yeah, really a lot of nice emails coming through and some comments on on on our YouTube channel as well. And remember, if you haven't subscribed to to both Forward Progress and Dan Bernstein unfiltered, please do so. And if you look on your phone, let's say you go to YouTube on phone and there's a little bell icon on the top right corner. Yes, that's your notification icon that needs to be, that needs to be turned on. So click on that little bell. So if you're, if you're of a certain age, that's not very tech savvy. Grab your phone, go to the YouTube channel, go to Forward Progress, go to DBU, go to both. There's the little icon, looks like a bell. You click on that, that's your notification alert. You can turn that on. If that's not turned on, you will not receive notifications. When we go live. And you want that. You want to know when we go live.

[Dan Bernstein]

Make sure your settings click that bell. Make sure that you are notified to say, hey, Dan and Matt are on YouTube live spilling their heart and soul. So come join. Here's a note from Jake that was sent in at. It was [e-mail] is where he sent it and he said, I believe opposing teams are well aware of Caleb Williams's accuracy problems in intermediate to deep distances. I believe the reason these are open is the defense is making a strategic decision that either Williams will be sacked and or won't pull the trigger on the throw or it won't be completed or larger. He won't do enough during any one game with those open to beat you. He said books out on Caleb. You can ignore any intermediate to deep threat and fashion defenses to say if you can complete 3 to 615 plus yarders in a row, take your touchdown. I can't imagine why any defense would be fewer than eight in the box. Against him at all times.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's great. That's a great email. Here's one from Tim. And I wonder if you will remember this guy, because I do. He says so wonderful to. That you guys are back together again doing a sports show. Loved listening. Absolutely. Loved attending live remotes. I listen to you guys every day and hope to see you both again in person. I'm not sure if you would remember me, but you guys used to call me Kyle Orton.

[Dan Bernstein]

I remember Kyle.

[Matt Abaticola]

Or something.

[Dan Bernstein]

I emailed him back. He sent this to me too.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I said yes, I remember he had the neck beard.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Tall guy. He was kind of, you know, hippie, dippy looking. Kind of Kyle Ortony.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. But didn't he have a big spill on his shirt? His little lights. Okay, I remember Tim. Oh, is that why he was drunk?

[Dan Bernstein]

Kyle Orton?

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't think he was drunk. I just think maybe he didn't, but he. Yeah, I remember Tim. It looked exactly like. So of course we remember you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Half Kyle Orton, half Dave Grohl.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. Right. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, No, I absolutely remember remember. So thank you for the. For the email.

[Dan Bernstein]

Where did he say that he. He ran into us?

[Matt Abaticola]

I can't. I can't remember. The remote, was it.

[Dan Bernstein]

A lot of people are bringing up specific remotes.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I believe one of them referenced the one where you and Terry. So that ended up like lovers. On the way home, you were naked in a limo.

[Matt Abaticola]

This is heartless.

[Dan Bernstein]

In a limo.

[Matt Abaticola]

It was Brent, also known as Glass Case of Emotion. So, yeah, we met him. We were in West Dundee.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's it.

[Matt Abaticola]

So let me see if I can find. Whereas I don't remember meeting me and my good buddy. This was back in the days. You and Terry did a live remote at Bandino Bardi's in East Dundee. That's what it was.

[Dan Bernstein]

Was I there?

[Matt Abaticola]

You were not. It was me and Terry. You were off.

[Dan Bernstein]

And Terry and me.

[Matt Abaticola]

Terry and me. And this was. Terry had an appearance, one of his very rare appearances at the OTB down here on LaSalle. And so we got. There was a limo provided for Terry to take him to the remote in East Dundee. Yeah. And then. And then back to this, this, this. This remote at the otb. I was living downtown, so I rode back with Terry in the limo. Needless to say, there were several. Several drinks were consumed during the show. Probably more than we needed to. Bandino Bardi's. The people were great. They gave us Tommy Bahama shirts. So Terry and I put those on. We had matching shirts on you changed.

[Dan Bernstein]

In the limo, though?

[Matt Abaticola]

No.

[Dan Bernstein]

So at one point, you were both shirtless in the limo?

[Matt Abaticola]

No, but we had those. We put them on at the remote.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Something happened in the limo. I'm gonna tell you what happened if you let me get the damn story out my mouth.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, yeah, you let. I tried to tell 10 minute story about the horses and Wayne a half hour. I know I told you to hold your questions.

[Matt Abaticola]

Hold your horses, Big B. So we're at Bandino Bar. This is where we met Brent, AKA Glass case of motion. His team's softball shirt had a picture of Richard Simmons swinging like on a pole. So that's what stood out to us. That's how we met him. There may have been shots of Jaeger involved as well.

[Dan Bernstein]

Happens.

[Matt Abaticola]

They gave us the shirts. We had a lot of booze on the limo. On the way home, we were stuck in traffic, like bumper to bumper, not moving, and both had to go to the bathroom.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Like really, really bad.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. See, my. My, My radio brain kicked in right there. I don't like, be careful about telling a story about going to the bathroom because FCC rules prevent it from being nothing bad.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's just. And you know what?

[Dan Bernstein]

I. I gotta turn that part of my head off.

[Matt Abaticola]

We. Inside the limo, there were the solo. The red solo cups. We had to relieve ourselves in solo cups.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why couldn't Todd just pull over?

[Matt Abaticola]

We were in the middle of nowhere. We were on the highway.

[Dan Bernstein]

There was nowhere to pull over and you and at least like walk into the woods.

[Matt Abaticola]

Hey, buddy, I'm not gonna be in the woods. We're on the highway.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm not gonna go barefoot on the Ryan Woods. On the Ryan.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'm sorry.

[Dan Bernstein]

You expect me to drive without. Without shoes on the Ryan. What's.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, that's totally.

[Dan Bernstein]

Then you said, why is the Ryan notoriously hard on your feet while driving? That's my favorite open that you put together.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's. Cause his socks were wet.

[Matt Abaticola]

So there was. There was nowhere to. There was nowhere to pull over and you know, hey, buddy. Wasn't gonna get out of the car and pee. I would've sure. On the side of the. I wouldn't care.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's like you do with a little kid.

[Matt Abaticola]

But he wasn't going to, so we had to use the red solo cups. That's what you remember about it outside of being. I knew something insanely drunk.

[Dan Bernstein]

I knew something awful happened. And then he showed up to the OTB out of his mind.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, we were. We were. But I hung out with Him. We were completely. And then I had buddies come by and hang out. We were all out of our mind.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because he was drinking Jack and Diet the whole time.

[Matt Abaticola]

And I was doing the Captain and Cokes.

[Dan Bernstein]

The entire show loves a captain.

[Matt Abaticola]

Dude, that was five hours of just nonstop drinking. And then shots of Jaeger with AKA Glass. Case of emotion. Brent.

[Dan Bernstein]

Hey, man.

[Matt Abaticola]

So, Brent, thanks for emailing me.

[Dan Bernstein]

Don't forget nights like that.

[Matt Abaticola]

And he even sent. He even sent pictures.

[Dan Bernstein]

What?

[Matt Abaticola]

There was photos. You're in this email. If you go down to. You responded to him. Look, go down. There's pictures in that email.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I thought. I wasn't there.

[Matt Abaticola]

You weren't there. But he emailed us. I'm saying.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, I thought you were saying I was in the photos.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, there was no Brent and his buddy in the photos.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, yes, yes. But I.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay, you can put on the board.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Okay. We never done that.

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't know, and I don't know why it came out today.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why were you like four times while you were editing stuff for the show?

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't know. I don't even know how it came out.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, meanwhile, the thing that you made me leave the studio for, is that for this or is that for fp?

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, no, it's for Ford Progress.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Why?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

Cause I didn't hear it. Did you?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I didn't hear it. He told me to leave the studio.

[Matt Abaticola]

You know, one of my things that I love about you is your use of Meanwhile. Because it's always, like, right in the middle of a comic book. Yeah, Meanwhile. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Back of the Justice League.

[Matt Abaticola]

You do it all the time. And I always think I'm like, in a comic book with you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, it's better than like anyhow or. Oh, and you want different transitions for me.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, I know. I like. I'm saying I like it meanwhile, because no one else in my life does that. It's just. You know what you could do? You could just talk.

[Dan Bernstein]

Aquaman was summoning the powers of a giant clam to accomplish absolutely nothing.

[Matt Abaticola]

Not sure if you're aware of this, but it's just the two of us here. Like, you could. You could just talk. You don't need to transition in anything. You could just. You don't need the transition.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's true. Podcasts are conversational, right?

[Matt Abaticola]

It's not even a pod.

[Dan Bernstein]

Like, I read that today in the Sun Times that I'm. I'm making a transition to the brand new medium.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, it's rare.

[Dan Bernstein]

See, I see what they did there.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yep. I didn't. I didn't.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, I didn't initially. And then I said, oh, it's a new medium. And the medium is rare. To him.

[Matt Abaticola]

To him. And is that to he. Is that where.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is that nice?

[Matt Abaticola]

Is that where it started? Is that. Is that where I first gave you the juken? Because we got it right. I don't know.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

Or was it because of your Aussie loan? I don't remember.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't remember what started it because I was getting calls from Venezuela about my loan being approved. And then. Right. I thought it was Ozzy.

[Matt Abaticola]

And I gave you Jukan. Put it on the budget. Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

You can put it in a bank. Yes.

[Matt Abaticola]

He needs to do that. Sponsorship. You need to open a new bank account.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Why are you calling me from Venezuela about a loan that doesn't exist? Stop doing that, please.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, Feedback Friday, continue.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I think we should probably wrap it with this. The suggestion that while Feedback Friday is certainly appreciated. How about this saying. Why don't you tell us where plural it says. Why don't you follow up Feedback Friday with a segment called Feedbag Friday where you talk about the latest or best places you've engorged yourself. And Cole Peterson adds here, preferably while wearing assless pants. Cause I don't think you know about my assless pants.

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't recall.

[Dan Bernstein]

You know, when I used to wear those, I had two pairs of those, like plastic pants, Adidas, three stripe down each leg. Sweatpants. I had a navy blue one and a black.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. And you always. You dressed like you looked like you were homeless.

[Dan Bernstein]

I still have both pairs of pants.

[Matt Abaticola]

Of course you do.

[Dan Bernstein]

The navy blue one, the ass blew out.

[Matt Abaticola]

Did it really?

[Dan Bernstein]

So the lining is still there, but the outside. The outside just sort of flaps.

[Matt Abaticola]

So was it too much farting or.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is it just sitting? But I said sitting.

[Matt Abaticola]

Too much sitting.

[Dan Bernstein]

I kept them.

[Matt Abaticola]

Of course you did.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I wear them.

[Matt Abaticola]

Of course you do.

[Dan Bernstein]

In the house.

[Matt Abaticola]

You wear free clothes and don't stop. But meanwhile.

[Dan Bernstein]

Meanwhile. And I. So I duct taped it. I duct tape.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, you didn't.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then the duct tape kind of came off weird when I washed him. So I just left the duct tape off.

[Matt Abaticola]

How?

[Dan Bernstein]

But I have them.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay. How is your wife married to you?

[Dan Bernstein]

She wants me to throw them out.

[Matt Abaticola]

She's like really well put together. I mean, she's.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know.

[Matt Abaticola]

She's like a. She's a really. She's really good at being an adult.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Matt Abaticola]

How are you married? To her?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know if I can answer that.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'm gonna have to ask her. Have her as a guest sometime. Ask her. Why are you married to D?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

Here's when I first asked that question. And you probably won't remember this, but we were in Bourbon A, and there was something about you in Bourbon A that I began to question why Beth was married to you.

[Dan Bernstein]

What did I do?

[Matt Abaticola]

I was driving. You were in my car. We got to the hotel, I popped the trunk. And you got your luggage out.

[Dan Bernstein]

I had a jewel bag.

[Matt Abaticola]

You had a fucking jewel bag with your clothes in it?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Matt Abaticola]

I said, what is that?

[Dan Bernstein]

I said, it's a jewel bag.

[Matt Abaticola]

What's in it? My clothes. For what?

[Dan Bernstein]

For the overnight.

[Matt Abaticola]

Why is Beth married to you? That's what I said.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was right there, but it did something to put my toiletries in my underpants.

[Matt Abaticola]

And, like, part. Like, part of me wanted to think, all right. It's just. It's for. It's a bit. It's just what he. But that's just you. It's endearing. It's frustrating. It's embarrassing.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was a container for my stuff. I'm not meeting the Queen.

[Matt Abaticola]

Duffel bag.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm.

[Matt Abaticola]

Or members of Queen are dead. Like, all of them is.

[Dan Bernstein]

Brian May isn't dead, but he also was not in Bourbon A. Getting the morning eggs.

[Matt Abaticola]

They're known for their egg specialty. Local specialty.

[Dan Bernstein]

Local specialty.

[Matt Abaticola]

Eggs, eggs.

[Dan Bernstein]

Wow.

[Matt Abaticola]

But, like, how about a duffel bag or a backpack? A suitcase.

[Dan Bernstein]

I got all of them. I got a humdinger of a suitcase.

[Matt Abaticola]

But why. Why a jewel bag? I just.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was there. I didn't know that the Bourbon, a Holiday Inn Express demanded better.

[Matt Abaticola]

It doesn't. It's. You're an adult. Like, just. It's.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why? Because your girlfriend that used to work at the front desk there.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, that wasn't my girlfriend.

[Dan Bernstein]

Remember her, though?

[Matt Abaticola]

No, that. You got. You got that wrong.

[Dan Bernstein]

You remember her, though?

[Matt Abaticola]

I do, but you got that wrong. That's incorrect.

[Dan Bernstein]

She was everybody's girlfriend.

[Matt Abaticola]

That is not correct.

[Dan Bernstein]

There was something wrong with her.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, you have the.

[Dan Bernstein]

There was clearly something wrong with her. Yes, but she liked us.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, she loved us. They all loved us.

[Dan Bernstein]

They all loved us.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, it was the. And it wasn't even her. It was the manager. Whatever.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, but they sold it. They're not there anymore. I don't think.

[Matt Abaticola]

What was his name? Remember his name? He was best. Was it Joe?

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it was Joe. Joe and his brother ran the place.

[Matt Abaticola]

The Jonas Brothers. They ran them. They ran the hotel in Bourbon A.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was kind of cool. Just a side thing for them was this.

[Matt Abaticola]

Before they were famous.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Yeah. They needed a little extra beer money. They would do that and then hang out at Donlin's. And Reuben Brown would grab him by the throat like, he got me.

[Matt Abaticola]

And then Alex Brown would drink with him and eat French fries.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, that was at Vito's where Alex Brown was the unofficial greeter.

[Matt Abaticola]

Right. You're right. Basket of fries and end of the bar. Yeah. Id, please. Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's like, what are you doing here? Just hanging out.

[Matt Abaticola]

Hanging out.

[Dan Bernstein]

Eating.

[Matt Abaticola]

I didn't know the Jonas Brothers owned the Holiday Inn Express.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's going to do it.

[Matt Abaticola]

For feedback Friday, remember, email dany12sports.com, matt12sports.com comment in YouTube. Subscribe. Click the bell, do all the notifications, get the alerts when it's live.

[Dan Bernstein]

College football's already cooking upsets, blowouts, wild covers, and my bookie lets you hit it all. Game lines, player props, everything you need, everything before the pros even kick off. So that way, by the time Sunday rolls around, you're already up. You're playing with house money. That's the best. My bookies got it all under one roof. So you win big on the NFL super contest and survivor pools. If you're new to my bookie, we got a code for you. It's dbu. The initials of this show Dan Bernstein unfiltered. Any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Make your play, and then if it doesn't hit, you get it right back. Opt in using the bet back bonus token. It's my bookie where bettors win together. The code, dbu. Because bragging is good, but cashing in is better. And that brings us two. What we do every Friday, we call this. You know why we call it this? Because it's what it is. It is. DBU picks presented by my bookie. My pick last week did not come in. I had 12 of the 15 and a half yards from receiving yards from DeAndre Swift on the first drive, like two of the first three plays, and then the other one was called back because of the phantom holding by Darnell Wright.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, that was dungeon. Screw you. Yep, I had. I was. I was one for two. I had Denver giving nine on Tennessee, but I had the overcorrect Denver one by eight. So we lost that game with the points, 21 to 20. But yeah, Denver won 20 to 12. So here's what I have for you this week. And here's the first and foremost. You just heard Dan say it. Go to my bookie. Create your account, use that code dbu. Okay. If you have any questions about any of the picks we have shared, any of our, any of our thoughts on college football or the pro game, go to my bookie and we can alleviate all those questions you have. Okay? Make it real simple on yourself. Go to my bookie. So here's what I have for you this week in the world of college foosball. Dan. Yes, we're taking a look at the South Alabama Jaguars are traveling to the Auburn tigers, currently ranked 24th in the nation.

[Dan Bernstein]

Now, South Alabama was the team that gave Tulane more of a game than they should have given because Tulane was terrible against them.

[Matt Abaticola]

They were. And Auburn will not be terrible against South Alabama. They're laying 25. They're going to give that 25. They're also going to hit the over of 54. So I'm taking Auburn laying 25 against South Alabama Jaguars and we're going with the over at 54. And of course I shared with you earlier this week too, my Vanderbilt commodores, my doors plus five and a half and over 48 against the South Carolina Gamecock or yeah, we're taking both. We're taking the points and we're going.

[Dan Bernstein]

To parlay all four of these.

[Matt Abaticola]

They could. They could. And win yourself lots of money on my bookie plus five and a half over a 48 as the rankings here on Espen had the South Carol Gamecocks. Not South Carolina.

[Dan Bernstein]

South Carolina. South Carolina, South Carol Stream.

[Matt Abaticola]

It said South Carol.

[Dan Bernstein]

It could be all right. I am staying on the horse that I rode in on and that wrote in on me. We're going to get to that when we do our little odds and ends segment here in just a moment. We're going to get to that. I'm so excited that when we heard about the Bears wanting to commit to the run game and maybe involve Kyle Manungai a bit more because maybe got.

[Matt Abaticola]

To see more on the field.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's what he said.

[Dan Bernstein]

So that is why I said it. I'm going to take the DeAndre Swift total carries under 14 and a half.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's a good pick, Daniel.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right now DeAndre Swift carries are over under 14 and a half and it is minus 111. So it's not huge odds. But I'm going to take that bet because I think that they're going to try to maybe Work in whether it's DJ Moore or Kyle Menung guy a little bit more. I'm just. I'm not seeing it from Swift. That 3.1 average is working right along what it looked like last year. So there you have it. That's my number. I'm writing it down. And there it is. Now, DBU picks are brought to you by my bookie. Lock in your picks with my bookie. Right now. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, so we're going to end Friday shows with our odds and ends. Could we. I thought of a name. Maybe can we call it to keep the theme alive?

[Dan Bernstein]

Getting hit in the head with a dong.

[Matt Abaticola]

No.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, different theme.

[Matt Abaticola]

Different theme.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, that's. That's off the air.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

How about Friday Fun Bag? We call it a Friday Fun Bag. We pull out our odds and ends. Or is that too much fun Fun?

[Dan Bernstein]

Because we can't. I don't think we can own a Friday Fun Bag. I think Odyssey probably still owns that.

[Matt Abaticola]

Friday if they want it fun.

[Dan Bernstein]

I should have negotiated to actually get that.

[Matt Abaticola]

We should have. Too late.

[Dan Bernstein]

Hey, give me Friday Fung.

[Matt Abaticola]

How about Friday Fun Bag? Because it sounds similar.

[Dan Bernstein]

Friday Feedback. Friday Fun Bag that we don't have Friday Feedback.

[Matt Abaticola]

Well, no, we have to talk about our Friday Feedback where we eat after the show because I'm gonna. I'm gonna actually gorge myself. I don't have.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm done eating for the day.

[Matt Abaticola]

Was it assless pants?

[Dan Bernstein]

I have assless pants.

[Matt Abaticola]

Or do I need ass? No. What do I need to wear when.

[Dan Bernstein]

I do assless pants?

[Matt Abaticola]

I thought it was. I thought it was elastic pants.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, like maternity pants?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. Is it elastic?

[Dan Bernstein]

You can assless. No. I'll eat mine or both. They're elastic waisted and have no ass.

[Matt Abaticola]

There's a place I see. I think it's Wells and Washington right there at the corner. Washington, I'm gonna kick your ass. It's our buys, and they have a lot of meat products.

[Dan Bernstein]

They say they have them.

[Matt Abaticola]

So I'm gonna go there today on the way to the train.

[Dan Bernstein]

Arbyes.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. And eat as much meat as possible. Okay, I'll see how that goes and then I'll report back on feedback.

[Dan Bernstein]

Good luck to you, sir. We're all counting on you.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, so here's some odds and ends. You want to. No, let's. Let's save yours.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

For last. Because I think people need to know this. So here's a few things. And so now, three weeks now, taking the train, coming downtown. It's A. I. You know, three weeks in a row. I haven't done this in years and years and years. I mean, since. Since 2017.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, it's just gonna be Maddie's pet peeves.

[Matt Abaticola]

Well, there's a couple of them. But here's one thing I do love is the Friday train now with remote work and people being at home. Friday, there's like, nine people on the train.

[Dan Bernstein]

We actually.

[Matt Abaticola]

We get in.

[Dan Bernstein]

You get to drive it?

[Matt Abaticola]

No, they haven't asked that yet.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

But I do put the conductors outfit on, and I collect tickets. We got in. We get in, and it's like. It's like 13 minutes earlier because there's less people getting on and off the train.

[Dan Bernstein]

Take as much time.

[Matt Abaticola]

So I love the Friday train.

[Dan Bernstein]

Fewer people.

[Matt Abaticola]

Fewer people. Yes. And he.

[Dan Bernstein]

Thank you.

[Matt Abaticola]

There's a store in the bottom of Prudential Building called the Amazon Go. Have you seen these?

[Dan Bernstein]

Don't get me started. I don't get it. People have tried to explain it to me. I don't. It's scary to me, okay? I've never gone in okay ever. It's been there for years.

[Matt Abaticola]

I was hyped.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't understand it. Layla tried to explain it to me. She's like. It's. Cause she's very tech savvy, okay? And it's no big deal. You download this, and you download this. You download this, and then it knows what you get, and it charges you on your thing. And to me, you basically said I was giving my organs away to robots. So I steer very clear. I give it a wide berth.

[Matt Abaticola]

I was hoping that you would react that way to it, because I'm gonna tell you what I did. So today's Friday. Wednesday. I was walking down to the coffee shop Dollop. And the line was out the door.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I said, all right, I haven't been to Dollop.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'm not waiting in line. So I was like, that. Amazon Go has. Has coffee and snacks. I'm gonna go and check that out. I walked up to the gate, and it's an entrance thing with, like. It looks like a old. Like a subway entrance. We had to put your, like, metric card, right?

[Dan Bernstein]

Not the sandwich shop subway. An actual subway.

[Matt Abaticola]

An actual subway or the L. And there was. There's, like, little tables, but it's. It's gated off, so you have to go through this entrance, like the subway entrance. And there were multiple people sitting at the tables. I didn't know what to do, so I got uncomfortable and embarrassed because I didn't Want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because there were people sitting there.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's why I stay away.

[Matt Abaticola]

So I turned around and left.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. And I did so.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then it was explained to me, and I still haven't been back.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yesterday, I went back down, and there was no line and there was no people. It was completely empty. So I'm like, all right, no food. I'm going to figure this out. So I went to the little subway gate, the entrance, and I read the little sign, and I pulled out my card that is associated to my Amazon account.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's the one that's linked to my Amazon.

[Dan Bernstein]

Got it.

[Matt Abaticola]

And you. I have to. You slide your card over the top like a subway entrance ticket.

[Dan Bernstein]

You just hover it.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. And the gate opens. So that's how you get in.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then you take whatever you want and it's free.

[Matt Abaticola]

There was a cappuccino machine. I made a cappuccino and I grabbed the protein bar, and there's no people. There's no one working there. There's nowhere to check out. I didn't know what to do. I was standing there by myself holding this cappuccino and his protein bar.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I'm looking at the John Travolta.

[Matt Abaticola]

Meme, and there was the gate that you get in, and there's a gate. You go out, and it is. The gate's green, and it just says, you're good to go.

[Dan Bernstein]

Thank you, Matt.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's all it said?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Matt Abaticola]

It didn't, like, verbally say it. It was on the sign.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right.

[Matt Abaticola]

So I'm like, okay. So then I walked out.

[Dan Bernstein]

Did you know what it all cost?

[Matt Abaticola]

No, I had no idea. What? I didn't know. I didn't know if I paid.

[Dan Bernstein]

So they can charge you whatever they want.

[Matt Abaticola]

So then I was like. I'm like. I was like, did I just steal this? Is someone going to come after me? I didn't know what to do. Then I went and I checked my account, and yeah, I was. It was like $8.49.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. So what I do.

[Matt Abaticola]

And I didn't know what I took. I made a cappuccino in the coffee machine.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's a good place to make it.

[Matt Abaticola]

There's nothing like on that cup. That's like a scan that gets read from somewhere. And who's reading it how?

[Dan Bernstein]

It just knows.

[Matt Abaticola]

How does it know?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'm not going back there again.

[Dan Bernstein]

What I do is go down in the pedway and go Directly across. When you get out of the revolving door, go directly across. And there is a little newsstand convenience store.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, is that still there?

[Dan Bernstein]

That's family run.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay. I haven't.

[Dan Bernstein]

I would much rather give them my money than give Jeff Bezos my money.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay?

[Dan Bernstein]

So I go there and I get my. My pork cracklins.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, I'll. I didn't know that was still open. I'll go back over there. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And they've got, like, four different kinds of pork rinds. So whatever you're in the mood for. Different brands. Who. There's so many.

[Matt Abaticola]

Can we get pork rinds as part of the show? Please, Please.

[Dan Bernstein]

I trust I always have pork rinds. I'll bring them vests. Weighted vests. Because if you eat pork rinds while wearing a weighted vest, none of the calories count. Your triglycerides don't go up.

[Matt Abaticola]

So I told.

[Dan Bernstein]

Or you could eat weighted pork rinds.

[Matt Abaticola]

I told Natalie my Amazon go story, and she looked at me like I was an idiot.

[Dan Bernstein]

You are an idiot.

[Matt Abaticola]

She's like, what? And she goes, and what's the issue? I'm like, how did I know what. I don't like it. I don't like it. I'm not going back. I mean, I use Amazon all the time. I love Amazon. I watch Amazon Prime. But I'm not going to your store again. I'm sorry, Jeff. Not happening.

[Dan Bernstein]

There you have it.

[Matt Abaticola]

Last thing for you. So being downtown. I love seeing all the people downtown. Like my walk from Union Station to Peru. Oh, and I need to figure out how to do the underground stuff again. I can't remember how to do, like. Because you can. I can do most of my walk from Union Station to here, right in the underground tunnels. I just don't remember where to get in.

[Dan Bernstein]

By the state. The old State Illinois Building. Is that what it is? By Dirksen.

[Matt Abaticola]

Is that where I go? Okay, I don't remember.

[Dan Bernstein]

So I gotta find you the whole thing.

[Matt Abaticola]

I've walked different streets to see if something sparks my visual memory.

[Dan Bernstein]

The one thing you want to avoid is the hallway by Macy's.

[Matt Abaticola]

That's like the block. Block 37 or block 51. That's where all the stuff is.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, that's fine. But when you get into the. The one that goes by Macy's.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, that's the piss hallway.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes. Oh, no. So by our.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's. That's.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay. So that might be the piss hallway, but there's a. There's. There's. I call it Urine Lane. It's it's right by The Arbis and Ms. And Mr. Submarine on Wells. Right there, there's an alley, and it's. It's. It's Urine Lane.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's. Wait till the winter.

[Matt Abaticola]

Really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Till the winter. And the Pedway in front of Macy's.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, so great. There's one guy I see on stage at all time. He's playing. He's playing dice, a game of dice by himself.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is he winning?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, I hope so. I hope he's not losing. But he's always alone, always playing, and he's really loud and boisterous about it, so it's really cool to watch.

[Dan Bernstein]

Come on, 12.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. And he's yelling and screaming, daddy needs.

[Dan Bernstein]

A new pair of shoes.

[Matt Abaticola]

And then you know who I hate?

[Dan Bernstein]

Who?

[Matt Abaticola]

Running downtown or joggers jogging downtown streets. Like, when. Especially when it's a crowded, busy day when there's a lot of people coming into the city to work.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, what about, like, the Lakeshore Path?

[Matt Abaticola]

Do that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

Don't jog down, like, State Street. You don't need to run down Washington.

[Dan Bernstein]

Washington.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. Stay off Adams. Yep. Go jog. Like, are you trying to impress people going to work because you're a fucking jogger? Run in the bus lanes, douche.

[Dan Bernstein]

The bike lanes.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, the bus lanes. I like the CTA bus. All right, and here's my last one for you. Last one.

[Dan Bernstein]

So run in the bus lanes, douche.

[Matt Abaticola]

The digital ad signs. Yes. And these are all over the CTA bus stops.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, I thought you were the billboards that I'm on.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, I love those. Yep. These are the smaller ones. And all it is right now, and it's been for several days, is a picture of Ken Jennings, and it. It just says Jeopardy. Underneath it. So he's obviously the new host of Jeopardy.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, maybe he's in terrible jeopardy.

[Matt Abaticola]

No, he's being.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's like ransom, Right? Maybe he's. Maybe he's calling for help.

[Matt Abaticola]

Is that not the worst gig in.

[Dan Bernstein]

America, post Trebek Jeopardy. Host?

[Matt Abaticola]

Like, he could host it for the next 100 years, and he'll always be the guy that took over for Alex Trebek. Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

How about the. That came out about the IBM thing. Remember when they had IBM's Watson compete on Jeopardy?

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, yeah. It was against him, wasn't it? Wasn't it against.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't remember who it was against.

[Matt Abaticola]

It was against Ken Jennings.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it's a. It's either Slate or. Yes, I think it's on Slate.

[Matt Abaticola]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Where they tell the story about Trebek like, basically said, if this. If you do it the way you say you're gonna do it, I quit.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Like, he went to the mattresses to say, this is you. You can't change this camera angle. You can't do this. You are changing the viewer's experience. It's one thing if you want to do a little special one off thing, but don't, don't you dare. Like, he brought the thunder to say and like, wrested control of everything from the studio and would not relent.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And they eventually did a special kind of one off thing, but they had many, many bigger, bigger, bigger plans where IBM wanted all this. All these special ads and embedd and mentions and Trebex, like, nope, not really doing it. Yeah, yeah, it's very cool.

[Matt Abaticola]

So, you know, let's hear. Let's light them up. Who's your favorite game show host of all time? You can email.

[Dan Bernstein]

Dan hasn't become an absolute maga freak because I don't know what happens to game show hosts, but they're all like, lunatic racists. Oh, wow. Like Chuck Woolery, Sajak, Wink Martindale.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, yeah, our guy. Wink.

[Dan Bernstein]

At least Woolery and Mark Dale. Dead.

[Matt Abaticola]

They're right. They are correct. They are dead. Still dead. So is Ken Jennings. Does he have the worst job in America? Because he'll never outlast the memory of Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy. Never. He never will. He'll always be the guy that took over for Alex Trebek.

[Dan Bernstein]

He's like the Jerry Faust. Is that the Notre Dame coach that took over for. For Parsigian? I don't know. Notre Dame football? Yeah.

[Matt Abaticola]

You shouldn't even bring it up because you haven't seen Rudy.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't want to see Rudy. Am I supposed to want to see Rudy?

[Matt Abaticola]

Do you know the story of Sean Astin and his forefathers? I saw him on not the forefathers, but his forefathers.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sean Astin and the forefathers of America. He's got a powdered wig on.

[Matt Abaticola]

I know.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't. He had a powdered donut on his head. I don't know that story.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, well, I'll bring it for another time. It's an unbelievable story. You know whose mom is?

[Dan Bernstein]

Whose mom? Jerry Faust.

[Matt Abaticola]

No.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sean Astin.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Florence Henderson.

[Matt Abaticola]

Patty Duke.

[Dan Bernstein]

Really?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

And the dad is John Astin.

[Matt Abaticola]

He thought.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's not.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's not. This is. It's a. It's a wild story and it's really great. It's really Heartwarming story, too. You want to look it up now? Go ahead, look up. Just Google Sean Astin and his forefathers. Not the forefathers.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

But his F O U R. Wow. It's a crazy story.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I imagine.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. Because Goonies was on the other day.

[Matt Abaticola]

Great movie.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's pretty good.

[Matt Abaticola]

It's a very. Josh Brolin.

[Dan Bernstein]

Young Josh Brolin.

[Matt Abaticola]

Josh Brolin. That's what I said.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know, Jeff.

[Matt Abaticola]

I said Josh.

[Dan Bernstein]

You said Jeff.

[Matt Abaticola]

I'll pull the goddamn tape. And I said Josh.

[Dan Bernstein]

KE Huy Kwan. Martha Plinston and John Matuszak plays What's his name? Chud. What's the strongest disabled.

[Matt Abaticola]

Chunk. No, Chunk's the bad kid.

[Dan Bernstein]

Chunk's the kid. Sloth.

[Matt Abaticola]

Sloth.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sloth.

[Matt Abaticola]

Is it Sloth?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, it's Sloth.

[Matt Abaticola]

Make that up. It sounds right.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's Sloth. It's not chud. CHUD was the.

[Matt Abaticola]

Chubbs was the guy in Happy Gilmore.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, CHUD was the movie. It was an acronym. It was like the HITS principle.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, it was C H U D.

[Dan Bernstein]

And it's Cannabinoid Human Underground Dweller. Is that right?

[Matt Abaticola]

If you have.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is that right? Cannibal.

[Matt Abaticola]

Asking me if it's right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Cannibal Humanoid Underground Dweller. I think were the chuds. And they would come up from the underground and eat you. And if that was an influence on Jordan Peele's movie. Us.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, was it really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Scary ass movie. And don't see his next movie. That one after that.

[Matt Abaticola]

Which. What's the one after that?

[Dan Bernstein]

Nope.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Horrible.

[Matt Abaticola]

Wait, bad or scary?

[Dan Bernstein]

Bad. Okay, not scary. Not watchable. Nope. Was awful.

[Matt Abaticola]

Cannibalistic human Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.

[Dan Bernstein]

I had it.

[Matt Abaticola]

So you did. You nailed it.

[Dan Bernstein]

I nailed my CHUD principle.

[Matt Abaticola]

Wait, so whose movies was it? Who did? Nope.

[Dan Bernstein]

And Jordan Peele.

[Matt Abaticola]

Jordan Peele. Does he have a football movie coming out?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Matt Abaticola]

The trailer looked pretty good for that.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'll give it a chance. I love Jordan Peele. He let me down last time. Maybe he rebounds like the Bears. Maybe he. My high expectations for Jordan Peele will be met with the next movie.

[Matt Abaticola]

Have you seen the trailer for the new Glenn Powell? It's streaming. It's coming on Hulu. Maybe I want to say he plays a college football player. Like goes back and like uses facial prosthetics to get back into college. It's called Chad Powers is the name of the.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, Chad Powers was the character that one of the Manning. Eli Manning did. Right. Wasn't that a Bit. It must be the movie version of.

[Matt Abaticola]

Maybe it is. Yeah, maybe it is. I thought. I thought it was Baker Mayfield.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

Didn't he do that, too?

[Dan Bernstein]

It was like an Uncle Drew thing.

[Matt Abaticola]

Like, he. He was on a. He was on a tour with Buccaneers fans of the stadium, and they use facial prosthetics, and he became part of the tour. They had no idea it was Baker Mayfield the whole time. And then they started throwing footballs to actual receivers.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, that's like. That was it Chris Bryant that got punked at a batting practice thing? Because they did the same thing with Greg Maddux.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, was he throwing bp?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, and it's Craig Maddox, so he looks like your accountant who walked out there.

[Matt Abaticola]

I don't have an accountant, but.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, you should get one.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's important. And I also saw a version of that on Funny.

[Matt Abaticola]

We do, haven't it?

[Dan Bernstein]

There's a version on Funny or Die where it was a karaoke bar where they take it really seriously. Like, one of the super serious karaoke places.

[Matt Abaticola]

Aren't they all?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, I don't know. And they had Jewel come in. Jules, was that a horse there? Override a Jules. And they had Jewel Kilcher come in there in fac prosthetics and sing juul songs.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, wow.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then they showed the actual Jewel and a guy afterward they interviewed. He goes, you know, I gotta be honest. The girl before her singing the songs, I think was actually better. And like, hey, you know, you realize that that was.

[Matt Abaticola]

What's her last name?

[Dan Bernstein]

Kilcher, I believe. Right?

[Matt Abaticola]

I have no idea. I didn't know she had a last name. I thought she was just Jewel.

[Dan Bernstein]

You think she was, like, parented of a last name?

[Matt Abaticola]

Hold on. I didn't know it was known. I didn't know that you knew it off the top of your head like that.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know what's in there.

[Matt Abaticola]

And the knowledge you have.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Matt Abaticola]

You knew chud. You knew Jewel's last name.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, that'll win me. What. What does that get me?

[Matt Abaticola]

A podcast.

[Dan Bernstein]

Exactly. Exactly. Is that a marketable skill? Well, apparently so.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right, so for our Friday fun bag, odds and ends. What are you doing? What do you have for us? What are you gonna share?

[Dan Bernstein]

I am not.

[Matt Abaticola]

What are you pulling out of your bag?

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, Papa. So based on. It's brand new. It's a Jewel bag. But it's brand new.

[Matt Abaticola]

Full of your clothes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Papa's got a brand new Jewel bag.

[Matt Abaticola]

You refer to our work Trip as an overnight. You going back to camp?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, it's an overnight.

[Matt Abaticola]

I packed the jewel bag for the overnight.

[Dan Bernstein]

What? Our face it, our trips kind of were like that. Oh, 100% right. We're playing truth or dare up till like 3 in the morning and ordering in pizza. So what I'm doing, based on some of the feedback that feedbag and we're fun bag.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

To our horse story, several people pointed out, hey, by the way, you're making fun of Wayne, Illinois and you're making fun of all these bizarro horse folk. He said there's a couple really good fishing spots around there. And you know what? They gave me hot fishing tips.

[Matt Abaticola]

Nice.

[Dan Bernstein]

So I'm going. I'm waking up early tomorrow morning.

[Matt Abaticola]

Hot fish and chips.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm waking up early tomorrow morning.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I'm gonna go see what I can catch in these spots.

[Matt Abaticola]

Are you really?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Some people gave me some spots and some ideas about some places there where there might be some fish.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right.

[Dan Bernstein]

So I'm gonna go give it a shot. If I catch some stuff, I'll take some pictures.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

I will chronicle my fishing excursion to Wayne. To Wayne, Illinois. And if I be on the lookout.

[Matt Abaticola]

For if I come back, horses with the strangles.

[Dan Bernstein]

If I come back with a case of strangles, you'll know what happened.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah. You made out with horses.

[Dan Bernstein]

Amen.

[Matt Abaticola]

That were wild.

[Dan Bernstein]

You never free. Who's going to ride your wild horse?

[Matt Abaticola]

So just remember if. If there are people after you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Matt Abaticola]

Don't stand still. Keep moving.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, they can't shoot a moving target. I know. They'll send the drone after me too.

[Matt Abaticola]

Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

They can't shoot a dart. They can't shoot a dart at a moving target, but they can shoot a bullet at one.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Abaticola]

So if you want to get darted, stand still.

[Dan Bernstein]

Got it.

[Matt Abaticola]

If you don't keep moving.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm writing that down.

[Matt Abaticola]

All right. So have fun in Wayne. What are you doing on your fishing trip tomorrow? Tomorrow? Oh, I'm doing laundry. I did laundry yesterday because, you know, you know, being out of the house all day, I can't do laundry anymore. It's really frustrating. I'm going shopping for clothes for the boys. New stuff. Yeah, we did. We rearranged rooms of the house.

[Dan Bernstein]

Can't even imagine the clothes expense, let alone the food. Because they're going to be like your height, right?

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, they're getting. They're getting there. So we rearranged rooms. I told you that the. My nine year old stepson moved into the basement. Got his. Got his room all done, and then the other ones all swapped rooms and. And so we cleaned out closets and donated a lot of stuff and threw a lot of stuff away. So now they need a lot more new stuff. So we're do that. And then it's. It's a date. It's a date night. Date day. So not sure what we're doing yet. She. She's really interested in going to see Little John Little. Little John Little John, yeah. He's playing at the Milkman Stadium in Kenosha. Or is that. Is that Milwaukee's or Franklin. Franklin, Wisconsin, where the minor league baseball team, the Milkmen, play. Oh, really?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know, Mike.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah, so that's where our tournaments are at. At the Rock in Franklin, Wisconsin. And the Milkmen, the Savannah Bananas, actually played a game there last year, I believe, at the Milkman Stadium.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, that's small for them.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, yeah. No, yeah. Now. Now they're selling out big concert venues.

[Dan Bernstein]

The Milwaukee Milkman.

[Matt Abaticola]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Independent. The American association of Professional Baseball. Yeah.

[Matt Abaticola]

So Lil John, is it? Lil John Little. Yeah. So he's playing there and apparently there's like. Like taco trucks and like margaritas and. Looks like a fun time.

[Dan Bernstein]

So very cool.

[Matt Abaticola]

But yeah, definitely. It's a. It's a date day. Date night. After laundry, though, I've got to do laundry. It's been piling up.

[Dan Bernstein]

I did it, but I haven't folded it yet, so I think. I think I might live out of the pile in the basket.

[Matt Abaticola]

You probably would do that. I can't do that. I have to take it immediately out of the dryer when it ends and fold it and put it immediately. I cannot let it sit. It drives me insane.

[Dan Bernstein]

You want to come over and fold mine?

[Matt Abaticola]

I would be happy to do your laundry. Just bring it over in jewel bags, weirdo.

[Dan Bernstein]

Endless series of jewel bags.

[Matt Abaticola]

Endless love.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's going to do it for Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered for this week. Don't forget that Forward Progress today is going to delve deep into Bears and Lions and the state of the Tigers.

[Matt Abaticola]

Oh, my.

[Dan Bernstein]

And the NFC North. More importantly, the lift of the 10 greatest lions of all time.

[Matt Abaticola]

You do not want to miss that. I'm telling you, Dan, it's a great list.

[Dan Bernstein]

Make sure you're subscribed to Forward Progress also to get your opportunity to be alerted to when our post game begins after the Bears Lions game. Thanks for tuning in to today's episode of dbu, brought to you in partnership with my bookie Dan Bernstein, unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312Sports.