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Dan Bernstein unfiltered.
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Unfiltered on 312 Sports. Welcome to Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. I'm DB, that is Matt Abaticola. And we are brought to you in partnership with my bookie. There is a word that we've used a lot that has sort of taken on a life of its own when it comes to Caleb Williams. When it came to the Bears ending up with the draft pick that would Caleb Williams. And the word has also been in some ways turned against him as we've watched him develop. And you may know the word that I'm talking about and it's generational. We kept hearing it. Generational talent. Get that number one pick, Bears, so you can get this guy with the comps to Patrick Mahomes. Generational. Generational talent. And it's, it's, it sounds big. It is big. So what does that mean? What, what is a generational? Once somebody comes along like this, a prospect like this, once in a generation, and is it overused? Of course. Of course it is. I go back to John Elway being drafted and then refusing to go play with the team that drafted him. But that was one of these. Like the Yankees wanted to play shortstop. And this is the. And I, Carson Palmer was another one, remember, I think there was an SI cover of him like the $6 million man and breaking down his pieces. The perfect quarterback prospect, Andrew Luck was another one. But Caleb Williams, this, this is the modern quarterback. He's got everything. He does everything. He's generational. But when we look at what somebody does, how do we define after the fact? How do we say, yes, that person was generational? That person was not generational. Is it just numbers? Is it just where they are in the pantheon of all time NFL greats after their career? Do we then say this was indeed generational? And then we get into all of the silly debates about, well, how many championships and is the person in the hall of fame. So when we look at what it means, let's really talk about it. Let's talk about what we know about generations and how do we know about what that means through our own kids and through our parents, right? When we actually have the rubric for generations, it's in our living room, we say, have you ever seen anything like that before? No. Okay, well, plant the flag there or put a push pin in and just say that was generational. We had on Saturday night what I think was indeed truly a generational moment. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know if the Bears will win the super bowl, who knows? They lose the rest of the games, everybody could get hurt and they. Who knows? And anything can happen. But let's just live in the now. That was clearly generational because I know for a fact when my kid's going to be 21 Thursday. He said. Not only is that he goes that's the best Bears moment I remember is what he said. He was born Christmas of 04. He said that's the best Bears moment. My best, he said of my conscious memory. That's the best Bears moment I've ever had. And then I was thinking about. He said that's the best throw. That's the best throw from a Bears quarterback I've ever seen, is what he said. So I'm going back in my head about meaning and the weight, the significance of a given pass. And I was trying to think about that, about this. Clearly. I've already got sufficient evidence that that's a generational moment. It's right there. It's right in front of me. I have another generation that has paid incredibly close attention to the Bears for an entire conscious life. Say that reasonably and kind of, you know, self vet it and go through various moments varied with the whole, you know, Matt Negy and Mitch Trubisky and all of everything that he remembered about any positive Bears moments. We set him in front of the TV for the Super Bowl. It was alive for the super bowl, but there was no conscious awareness or retention.
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Thinking back to hearing him growing up as a young kid and his involvement and interest in sports, he probably 2012, eight years old. Probably where it starts for him.
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A little younger for him because he had a little different intensity even though.
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He was reading box scores and remembering things early on.
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So maybe and was already playing competitive sports at four.
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Okay, so maybe 2010 is where it starts for him. So about 15 years of watching Bears, probably around there.
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Probably around there to have real memories and understanding of what was going on.
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Okay.
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And obviously that's colored by studying some of the history and maybe it helps rekindle some stuff that had memories that weren't accessible before. You have the touchstones that you provide yourself later. So that counts. But. But I was thinking about it even in. Even the throws. Do you remember a throw that dramatic?
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No, I don't.
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The closest I could get was the Thursday Night Bears at Vikings when an injured Jim McMahon came off the bench to throw the touchdowns to Dennis McKinnon and the pickup block by Walter Payton that allowed him to get it you know that, but that's sort of going back and then it's a regular season game when you thought you knew the Bears were good, but that was almost all after the fact. You didn't know when that throw was made, you didn't know how big it was. That was all context. That came later.
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Right.
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To know in a moment the significance of a Bear's throw. What are we talking about?
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Yeah, that, that has to be. In my conscious viewing of the Chicago Bears, the most significant throw was it.
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Steve Fuller to Pat Dunsmore to beat Washington in the playoffs in 84 to get them to the game against San Francisco. Remember that throw?
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I do. But you like that, that 85, 86 team that won the Super Bowl. Like my memories are all just full of defense, obviously.
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And Walter Payton and I remember McMahon running it into the end zone. You know, you remember how they scored their points, right?
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And then, oh, 6,07 when they get to the super bowl again, that was, that was Lovey Smith's defense. But what I really remember was that comeback against Arizona. That was the game I remember.
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Devin Hester returns right now.
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This will be a game that I never forget, that is imprinted on both my boys brains that will be there forever now at almost, at 13 and 11 and a half. They're never going to forget in the way they've talked about it. They'll never forget this game.
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This was, this was a generational moment and a generational game objectively. And I'm not doing this because I'm here to start, you know, fluffing Caleb Williams or trying to legitimize after the fact the scouting reports on him. I'm just saying, like I. The throws for me, that I remember. Yeah, it should be Bob Avellini to Greg Latta in the comeback against the Chiefs. But we left.
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Oh, did you?
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We left that game. We watched the Walter Payton incredible run against the Chiefs. 77. I think it was 77. And we left. And then I on the Channel 2 news, I saw Johnny Morris talking about and showing the throw from Bob Avellini to Greg Ladder to win the game.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. But still, even at that point, the significance of what that moment meant for this team, we knew everything. It was like going into the game you knew what was on the line.
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Yes, it was. And then in overtime you knew it was on the line. And then like that won the game. They walked off the packers in overtime at Soldier Field on a Saturday night in December.
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Yeah, you know, it's hard, like it's Hard for me to talk about generational talent when it comes to a football player, because so much has to happen around him for those moments to be made for that guy. Now, he was, in that moment, made that throw, and no one else could make that throw. At that moment, he was the quarterback. That was a generational throw. It was something that will never forget, imprinted on all of our brains as Bears fans, our kids. But there's so much that had to happen outside of anything that he could do with it for that moment to happen. Cairo, Santos, Josh.
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Blackwell.
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Blackwell.
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How about the face mask?
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The face mask. I mean, th. Those things. But, I mean.
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I mean, the face mask saved the game.
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Right. But as far as the guys on his team that had to do things to get him to that moment, that's football, man. I know. And so it's. So it's a generational moment for that team. Now you can only evaluate someone as a generational talent. I, for me, once it's said and done, like, you can look back on their career.
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But you can name a moment, though.
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Oh, no, for sure. This was a moment for him that we're going to look and like, we're going to put a pin in this one and say, how many pins will there be on this map of Caleb Williams journey as the Bears quarterback?
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But if the idea of generational prospect, generational opportunity to draft somebody. I just want to move that word slightly.
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Yeah.
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And at least say that. That word. It's not. It's not an identical one. For one thing, we're not immediately saying that this is it. Caleb Williams is the one.
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No, but the pin is there on the map. Right? The pin's there on the map.
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But like this. That was a generational moment.
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Yeah, for sure. No, 100%.
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It was the best Bears moment in a lot of people's lives.
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Oh, for sure.
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For sure.
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I mean, if you're of. I would even say going back to. I mean, my daughter was born in 98, so if you're. Let's. Let's go 30. 30 or younger, this is going to be the greatest, most significant moment for you as a Bears fan.
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Well, maybe not, because you've got the Devin Hester kickoff return in the Super Bowl.
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And how did that come.
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It doesn't. It doesn't.
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No.
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But still, it doesn't matter.
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The outcome of that matters. The outcome of that game matters.
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But. And you didn't know it at the moment.
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I know. But now we can look back on those things, though, and say, yeah, it was a Significant play for Devin Hester, not for the Bears because they ended up losing.
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But we didn't know it at the time.
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I know, but now we know is what I'm saying. We, like, we have the outcome of this particular game. Like if he, if he makes that throw and that was the first drive and the packers come down with a second drive, score, touchdown, hit a two point conversion to win. It's a significant moment. But is it as big? It's not. So, like we have the outcome here and like looking at a guy like Andrew Luck. You mentioned Luck. He's a generational talent going into the draft. Would we ever consider him that he was a generational prospect? Yeah. So Caleb Williams is, is, is, is writing his own future here.
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Yes.
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And we have the map. And there's a, there's a pin and there's pins along the way.
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It was just really weird.
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This is just the biggest pin now.
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Yeah, it was just really weird when I started to think about memorable Bears.
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Throws, passes like, this is the one that I'll remember.
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There's not a lot of them. And you know, maybe somebody could talk about Bill Wade or Sid Luckman.
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I mean, I'm sure we could look at the super bowl season and, or.
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You know, Cutler made some unbelievable throws.
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McMahon to Willie Galt. You know, I could, I could still picture my. This catching over his shoulder, but not.
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Significant in big games.
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I know. Yeah, that's, that's what I mean. Like, I can remember some specific plays, but nothing that was like, I'll never forget this game. I'll never Forget, you know, December 20, 2025, when the Bears beat the packers for the first time at home since 2018 and it solidified their playoff spot.
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And again, we didn't know that until after the fact either.
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Well, yeah, we had to fucking watch Aaron Rodgers yesterday. Yeah. And at the end of that game, we'll get into it in Ford Prize. Yeah, we will.
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We will. Because that was absolutely bizarre.
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So bizarre.
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Remember I was three for three again over the weekend. I gave you three games. I said don't necessarily do them as a parlay, but you could if you want.
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You're six for your last six.
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I'm six for six my last six games.
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Yeah, that's pretty good. We'll do DBU picks at the end. We'll put that. That run to the test.
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Because I gave you Pittsburgh, I gave you Cleveland and I gave you Bears.
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You did. You're in a giving mood. You're Santa. Matt is what you are. Is what you are. Oh, speaking of Santa, by the way, if you haven't seen the latest Neural.
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Vis video, is that the thing we were talking about? Okay, I'll watch you. Yeah, I gotta watch. It's on my.
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And. And. And Wired magazine did a story on the guy behind neuralviz. We now know who he is. His name is Josh Kerrigan. He's from like outside of Wichita Falls, Texas. Moved to la. He was an aspiring movie direct. This, this site, this thing he's doing called Neural Viz V I Z. Yeah. It is the bleeding edge of comedy satire. And it is. It'll make you feel better about the encroachment of AI if great artists find a way to do the comedy and the satire. The stuff that this guy is doing using AI, it makes you feel better about. About where AI what AI could be for actual artists.
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Good. Because I think AI is a destruction of humanity.
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So it's maybe.
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Hopefully this makes me kind of maybe, but.
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But if you need something and the Wired article is the future of AI isn't just slop I think is the name of the article. It's. It's a really, really good article about Josh Kerrigan and the work that he's doing with Neural viz. Because I. I am so into this universe. I just go. I. I think I've seen everything, and I know all the characters, and I've going. I keep going back for all these stories that he's developed about the entire mythos of everything. Speaking of mythos, when DJ Moore emerged to get his game ball, before I knew what was on his head, my first thought was gwar, because I think, whoa, is it beefcake the mighty? Is it pustulus? Like, he looked like a member of gwar. He had a giant foam rubber block on his head. I had no idea what it was until I'm like, oh, oh, my God. The dude has the cheese grater on his head. And then apparently yesterday. Wait, hold on. So apparently yesterday, Caleb Williams also was out with the cheese grater. Foam rubber head. Cheese grater head. It's not a hat. Because if it's a cheese head, that's a cheese grater head.
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Yeah. Cheese grater head. Yeah. He was out doing some community work yesterday wearing the cheese grater thing, giving.
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Out meals or something like that. Or doing something wearing. During the cheese grater, foam rubber thing on his head.
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He was also. He had breakfast yesterday in Libertyville at the o' Tooles there, right in downtown Libertyville.
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Really? Yeah.
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They posted a nice picture of him with his server.
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Oh, very cool. Yeah, very cool. He should be enjoying his life right now. The. The cheese grater. Couple things.
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So if there's going to be two people that have anything to say about this, it would be the two of us, Right? Of course. Well, everyone in the community loves the cheese grater.
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I love the troll.
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Yes.
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I love the use of it.
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I do, too.
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The problem that I have this is we say we.
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No, no, I'm included in this. I agree.
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Okay, I understand that. So the packers have cheese on our heads. We're Wisconsin, the dairies.
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Cheese heads.
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Cheese heads. And somebody said, well, wait a second. If you're the cheese heads, we're gonna wear cheese graters. The problem with the logic here is that cheese graters don't destroy cheese. You can't declare victory over. Over cheese by grating it. What you've done is you've improved it.
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Yes.
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Because certain cheeses need more surface area to make whatever food item on which you're using it better. If you are. If you're making macaroni and cheese and you're baking the cheddar onto the top. You want to grate it over the top, and that way it melts much more uniformly than blocks of cheese. Place there. If you're grating parmesan or Asiago or any of the dry Italian cheeses, Romano pecorino, you want to use a grater, because then it exposes it to air, and you get all the flavors out of it, and it falls, and it sticks to the pasta and the sauce because you've grated it. You don't take a chunk of Parmigiano Reggiano and set it on top of the pasta.
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No.
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The grater makes cheese better. So what are we doing?
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Like, yesterday, Dan, I. I made homemade Mac and cheese.
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Sure.
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And I had three blocks of. Of sharp white cheddar, and I'm making my cheese sauce. I can't just drop the three blocks in there.
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No.
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So I had the grate all three, and it made my cheese more useful.
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Not had to. You wanted to.
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Yeah, I wanted to, because that's how you would get it to melt better in the sauce. But.
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Right. It doesn't. The cheese grater is simply. It's a useful tool. It's a tool you use to get the most out of cheese to make yourself happier. The cheese grater makes you like the cheese. You're grating more.
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So I guess unless you're literally taking the cheese head thing off the person's head and it destroys their head, because that's foam rubber. Right. So if it. Right.
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Then.
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Yeah. Then it's. It's productive. But.
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But a hat destroyer is different. Yeah. If you're wearing a hat destroyer on your head, like a wood chipper or something, that would theoretically destroy a hat.
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Right.
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It's different than something that is going to process your cheese in a way that makes you happier.
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Right. So while. While we appreciate the cheese.
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Yes, it is.
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It's kind of counterproductive because it's actually a good thing.
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Right.
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To grate someone's cheese.
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I like my cheese grater.
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Yes.
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I have a planer. I have one of the rasp. The planer that is really good for zesting citrus and all that.
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And you can do garlic on there as well.
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Absolutely.
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You could even do your cheese on there.
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I often do. I've got a block of parmigiano, and I will use that right over the bowl. So is that the best we can do?
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You know, my initial thought was maybe is there a way to wear a hat that signifies melting cheese, but yet melted Cheese is even better than grated cheese.
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Yeah.
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Like, if we're ranking cheeses, like, I would take melted over grated. You know.
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I'm not sure that there's a hat response to the cheese head. They might have us on this one.
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Is there a hat? Is there a thing that makes cheese old and go bad? Maybe you can make that.
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No, because the older it gets, the better it gets.
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Well, some cheeses.
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Mo aging mold is good. That little ribbon of green. And a cheese is often the best and most expensive. Could you pay for that?
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Could we make a hat that's just a giant mouth eating the cheese or.
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Something about lactose intolerance? Is there. Is there a lactose intolerance hat? We do not tolerate cheese. We cannot and we do not. It shall not be tolerated here.
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What makes cheese bad?
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Not much. That's why it's. It's kind of been around for lots of years. Because it was kind of created. Because you don't.
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Yeah, because it can. Yeah.
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What. It's.
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What goes. What goes poorly with cheese? Fish.
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Seafood.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, generally.
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So maybe we do like a seafood hack.
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Yeah, we'll show you.
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My seafood and your cheese wouldn't taste good together.
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But of course, some chef would say, no, no, no, you are so wrong. This is a. I know there are.
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Are dishes with cheese and se. But it's just. It's not a thing. No.
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A filet of fish has a slice of American cheese on it.
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Okay, okay. I'm not talking real fish here, Trump. I'm not talking about a filet o fish. He loves filet o fish.
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What's wrong with the filet o fish? Nothing's.
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Nothing's wrong with him. And I'm thinking more of a elevated cuisine here. I'm not. Obviously.
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I'm saying that because probably the most consumed square of fish has cheese on it, so just put that on the back burner. The literal and figurative back burner when it comes to. I just. I don't think the cheese grater hat is doing what you think it's doing.
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No, it's not.
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I don't think it's sending the message. We're gonna take your cheese, and we're gonna prepare it in a way that makes it useful and delicious. It'll show you.
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Checking my bingo card. It did not have. Did you just call me trump on my bingo card today? Nope, not there. Darn it. Yeah. So the cheese grater again. While we get the troll and appreciate it.
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It's not. I don't think it's Accomplishing much you think it's accomplishing, Right. So I get it. It's like, hey, screw you guys. We're better than you are.
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I'm going to make your cheese.
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Yeah.
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Better.
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We're gonna find a way to optimize your cheese for exactly what I'm cooking. Damn it. We'll show you. If you need windows, you know who to call. Russ Armstrong. Russ will come to your house and give you the estimate. He's actually a real person. Have you made up this Russ Armstrong? Is this like Big Lou and the insurance?
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No. People asking you that about Russ if he's made.
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You're talking baseball.
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I'm talking baseball. Draft guy. Did you see there was a fire at Rainbow Cone? Did I see that right?
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Oh, I didn't.
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Yeah, there was some.
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Right here.
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Yeah, there was some incident at the original Rainbow Cone. Oh, I don't know, like last week, I guess. There was a disturbance in the force. Check it out, make sure I'm right.
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Yeah, we walked past it Saturday. I didn't notice anything.
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You walked past it on. On down on Western. What were you doing? What were you.
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Oh, no. So that's the original one? Yes, right down the street here.
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What did you think the original was?
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That's what I just asked you. The one right here?
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No. Oh, it was a. It was a break in. That's what it was.
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It was there a fire broke in?
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Oh, no. It was vandalized by a fire. Rainbow cone was vandalized and they said four people broke the glass door. They said no merchandise was taken, no arrests have been made. But the original at 92nd and Southwestern. Okay, so they're fixing it all up.
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And it's his ice cream, right?
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I think so.
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All it is is ice cream.
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It's multiple flavors of ice cream.
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Past the Rainbow cone truck that one time. Going to get lunch.
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Yeah.
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And there was a line of people like adults and it's just. I'm making sure it's just ice cream. Right?
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It's ice cream, but they give you every flavor on the. On the cone.
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So it's multiple flavor. Like you can get multiple flavors other places too.
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Yes.
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Okay. Just making sure.
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Yes. Okay. I've tasted it.
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Okay. And it's.
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It's good. Okay. Yeah, it's good. But I've never been a multi flavor ice cream guy. I like to know what flavor I'm having. The only time I've done multiple flavors is with when I'm in Italy. And I get gelato, I get half pistachio and half espresso. And then I scrape down the middle and I like the combination of the espresso and the pistachio.
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Yeah. Gelato. I just do one flavor. I do pistachio. That's it. Really? Yeah, it's my favorite.
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Have you had the Ben and Jerry's pistachio?
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I have, yeah. I've had all. I love pistachio.
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The Ben and Jerry's pistachio is really good.
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Well, Ben and Jerry's is good. Everything.
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Yeah. But they're mad at the new owners and stuff. I forget which one's alive. The one that's alive is mad. Ben or Jerry.
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Well, the dead guy's mad. It doesn't matter.
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Well, sure it does. Maybe it matters more.
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Unless he comes back and haunts him. Right.
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He's got friends in the underworld who can come back or something. I don't know. But yeah. The Murakami signing is cool and fun and there's no downside whatsoever. If he's bad, who cares? And if it's just a giant, like, swing every time, if he stands up there and just swings from his ass the entire time. Cool. And if he strikes out a lot, they can sponsor that, too. So Brooks Boyer will figure out a way to make this thing fun and different and interesting. So congratulations, Chicago White Sox, on the Murakami signing. I watched the Chicago Bulls going after their third consecutive win yesterday. It was a weird sports weekend. I, you know, I've. I watch a lot of sports. I was almost sports doubt last night. I was almost footballed out just because the intensity of everything and how busy.
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Oh, did you watch any of that Patriots game?
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Yeah.
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Okay. I did. Because I was done.
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I did.
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Yeah. I had too much. I did from Friday night, all day Saturday.
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I was kind of. I was just sort of. And I realized because I recorded the Bulls game, I watched the first half, I recorded the second half. I came back, I watched the second Half. Which allowed me to then watch most of the second half of the Lions and the Steelers because I needed to see if the Bears would get a playoff spot clinched. And then all of a sudden you look, and then you gotta go get dinner and then you get home and I just. I think. More football. So I watched Grease was on. I was flipping around.
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Oh, nice.
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Yeah, I just. I just. I love Greece, but just the fact that. How do they pass for high school students?
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Well, especially the one Stockard.
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Shannon.
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Yeah, she's like 40.
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Make an effort.
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Yeah, there's tidy effort.
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They're so old.
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Like, there had to be high school kids that sang back then, right?
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There had to be. It's 1980, right? It wasn't actually the 50s.
A
I mean, even like a 20 year old that could sing and dance a little bit, they had to.
B
Yep. She. Seriously, she was.
A
Yeah. How old was she? I'll see how old she.
B
I don't think she was that. I think she was. No, she wasn't, but early 30s maybe. But everybody, they just. They're just not high school students. I'm sorry, it doesn't. It's still great, though.
A
Wait, what. What year did that come out? Was it 1980?
B
80 or 81? The movie Grease.
A
Okay, well, she was born in 44. She should not have been playing a high school student in 1980.
B
No, nope. No, no, I'm sorry. It was released in 78, so give her some grace there.
A
All right, so 34, not 40. Sorry.
B
Well, I don't. I don't.
A
But you couldn't find another person that wasn't 34 to play.
B
There were. It wasn't even. It was some. The background dancers. Who was the other guy working on Greased Lightning? There was a guy with like the giant face. Yeah.
A
And he had like salt and pepper hair. Yes, yes.
B
He had a really great yes, bro.
A
Yeah.
B
Whoever that guy was, it's like you're. If you're in high school, you're really stupid.
A
Like.
B
Like that guy would be a senior teacher at that point. So I watched that. Then I got back over to. But that's not why.
A
That's a good movie, though. It's like.
B
Of course it is. It's a classic. Of course it is. So the Bulls and the Atlanta Hawks. I am not exaggerating. That's the worst defensive Bulls game I've ever seen. That was the worst defense from two teams. That is the worst defense I have ever seen played in a Bulls game. And I've watched a lot of Bulls games. I'VE never in my life seen worse defense than that. One team shot 51 of 98, the other shot 53 of 92. I think everybody on the Bulls was in. Was in double figures.
A
They had nine guys in double figures.
B
Yeah, Boozelis, White, Giddy, Okoro, Vuchovic, Herder, Desumu, Jones and Collins were all in double figures. Come on, man. And then for the hawks, they had one guy with 36, one guy with 35, a one guy with 23, one guy with 20. And nobody guarded anybody ever the entire game. Josh Giddey never bends his knees. He stands straight up. You can't even begin to think about playing defense until your knees bend. Yeah.
A
If you're in that position, you're not defending anything.
B
You have to. And now Bouzelis is getting that too. He's getting the I'm not going to bend my knees thing. I might block your shot at the end like that. The only defense that was played was maybe a swat away, a layup after the guy's allowed to drive right to the basket. Because everybody got wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted. It was like an All Star game with worse players. It literally looked like an All Star game. Yeah.
A
I couldn't believe it was incredible score. We were.
B
How about the halftime score?
A
Well, they have 83.
B
Did you see the halftime score?
A
Was it 80 something? Right?
B
Yes. They had a 45 point quarter. They had 83 points in half. They had 45 in the second. The Bulls quarter, scoring 38, 45, 33, 36. There were two 40 point quarters. The Hawks had a 40 point quarter in the third. 152 to 150 was the final.
A
And yeah, that's a All Star game from like 10 years ago, though.
B
Yeah. Yeah. And they won. They've won three in a row. Yeah.
A
So, yeah, back to back against the Cavs. Right. And then this in the Hawks.
B
Yeah. And the Cavs are missing some guys and the Bulls have been missing some guys. But you want to talk all you want about their depth and everything they can do when the Bulls have everybody but just help someone help defensively. I think. I think it's time that I may award Josh Giddey once again. At this point in the season, I may allow him further access to the Doug McDermott defensive accessory wall. And have I explained this on db?
A
You have not.
B
I've not explained the Doug McDermott defensive accessory wall.
A
You have not.
B
Okay, well, what this is, is there are four things on the Doug McDermott defensive accessory wall. This was created originally for Doug McDermott.
A
Bending knees part of it.
B
No, no, this is because you don't bend your knees.
A
Okay, so what does he get?
B
You get one of four things. All right, I got to make sure I remember this. You can get nunchucks.
A
Okay. Nunchucks.
B
A folding chair to hit someone with whatever you want.
A
Okay.
B
A pool cue.
A
Okay.
B
Or a tennis racket. And you can exchange them whenever you want. So it might be a certain possession, like during a timeout or when you come back in the game, depending on what you need. If you need to smack a guy over the head with a folding chair, you've got that. If you need a pool cue to maybe poke at the ball or reach it up near the basket, yeah, that's fine. A tennis racket sort of balances both of those things.
A
Tennis racket would probably be the best. Best option.
B
Well, the nunchucks. Well, nunchuck.
A
You could hurt yourself, though, with a nunchuck.
B
That's true. Yeah. And I probably. I had the rubber coated ones. Yeah, I think they're still in my bedroom somewhere. I should bring them in those for sexy time. Oh. Oh. Just by myself. I don't even need another person, technically. I mean, it depends on.
A
That's what I meant.
B
Yeah, of course. It depends how you define it, but, yeah. I think they were called Rubbachucks, the practice ones. That way if you hit yourself in the back, you're like, ow.
A
Yeah, I think you can get those at Lovers Lane.
B
Rubber Chucks.
A
Rubbachucks.
B
Rubbachucks.
A
Yeah.
B
No, that's what they were called.
A
Was that your buddy, too? High school.
B
Rubber Chuck.
A
Rubbachuck.
B
Hey, how's it going? Ew, you're gross.
A
Hey, your guy, by the way, Michael Tucci, he played Sonny in Grease.
B
Michael Tucci.
A
That was the guy. He earned J.D. degree from St. John's Law School.
B
What?
A
He was 31 when he played in. When he played.
B
No way. Yeah.
A
He was only 31.
B
He became a lawyer.
A
Yeah, well, it doesn't say. It says he earned a J.D. degree. Maybe he just got the degree and. Oh, he was married to a big network television executive.
B
Really?
A
Yes. Maybe he just got the degree because he needed something to do.
B
Good for him.
A
Yeah, but he was 31. Sonny.
B
Okay. Yeah, well, he might be lying because he looked older. If the bulls decide to try a little bit on defense and maybe help somebody, maybe after somebody's guy blows by him, someone else can come over and say, like, hey, I'll. I'll maybe throw a hand up here. Or I'll Stand in front of a guy. Everyone's. Isaac Okoro will do that. Isaac. And it stands out so glaringly because Isaac Coro is actually trying on def. And so few others are. And the other part is Vuch is trying. He's just terrible.
A
He can't move.
B
Oh, my God. It's time. Get him. Get him up out of here.
A
His lateral movement is just. It's nonexistent.
B
No, I don't know. I know Stacey King will weep forever in a day when Vuch is gone.
A
No, I mean, he deserves it. Get him somewhere.
B
He's been great.
A
Yeah, yeah, get him something.
B
We'll discuss all that in depth and a lot more on Organizations win championships tomorrow. But. But, yeah, they've got their three wins, but they're going to need to score 140 points a game to win games.
A
Yeah, that's great.
B
They're going to have to hit every single shot and every. You should shoot a three every time because you're going to need it. Anytime the Bulls go for a two, I'm worried that they're not going to have enough points because they need every single point. I'm just Josh giddy. I just. Maybe I'll give him two items off the wall. Maybe he can have a pool cue in one hand and a tennis racket.
A
I give him two tennis rackets.
B
No, no, no, no, no. You don't get two of the same thing because that would be silly. That would make no sense. That would blow up my entire model here. But I do think, or maybe he's allowed more exchanges or more, more specificity. And he doesn't need a timeout. He can just run over and grab something before every possession. If we put it right near like the sticky thing where they get the dirt off their feet and, well, there's that. And then we'll just have the accessory wall right there. When you check in, you head down the scores table. You look everything over, you grab what you want, you go in. If you really want what you want, Omaha Steaks is your best bet. It could be a present for you. It could be a present for somebody else. But right now you can get an extra $35 off with the code Bernstein at checkout. When you go to Omaha Steaks dot com. How about the bacon wrapped filets? Those are really good. I like to do rather than do them on the grill. I love to do those quickly so I can do them to like rare cast iron, just sear.
A
I think I'm doing that tonight. I think I want a steak tonight.
B
Yeah.
A
Yeah. I think I'm gonna go grab some at Sunset and. Yep.
B
And then just do like a whole clove of garlic and then let the garlic soften in the pan and then just sort of spoon compound butter over it. Maybe throw a sprig of thyme in there, like a whole sprig, a couple herbs in there and let that soak in the bone.
A
Maybe I can just swing by after the shows and I can pick up some from you.
B
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A
Yeah, one of the, one of the streaming things should have. If it's not, it might just be on hbo but it could be on, you know, like Peacock or Hulu, Paramount, somebody else might have it.
B
Sometimes there's like a co ownership of that. But make sure you see it. Go out of your way to see this because and now I've seen it three times now and I decided it's sort of like what I did with Whiplash. If you watch it as for the first Time. Just don't go in with any presumptions. Just watch it, react. Don't, don't. I don't want you to consider whether you're gonna laugh or scream or jump. Just watch it and enjoy it, and enjoy the thrill ride of it, especially one of the greatest car chases that has ever, ever been put in on screen, and the performance of Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro. I mean, so the third time through, I said, okay, it's a comedy. I'm gonna watch it as a comedy. And it works. It completely works, just like whiplash does, where J.K. simmons character, the way he's delivering some of those insult lines is. And that was the same thing I did the third time I watched Whiplash. I said, all right, I'm just gonna watch this as if this is a comic character. Fletcher, his character. And if you do that for Benicio Del Toro in this and for Sean Penn's character in this, fully lean into the comedy. Don't do it your first viewing, but I would do it the second or third. And I gained a whole lot of appreciation with some of the other things that are. Things that are going on in the background, some of the details and some of the storylines that are emerging. I liked it the second time better than the first and decided, like I say, to watch it very differently the third time. But just make sure you see it. And the fact that you get Kevin Tighe and Jim Downey playing some of these roles. Tony Goldwyn, there's so many familiar faces that kind of pop up. And I've read a lot about it. I've read a lot about why they used certain things, locations or certain people, and is. I'm always kind of a stand for Paul Thomas Anderson, especially some of the new stuff, because I think he's developing as a filmmaker a little bit. Maybe he's leaning into some fun stuff a little more as he ages. So it's just very cool. It's just really.
A
Yeah, it's a great movie. Highly recommend. If you weren't interested in watching it, you got a chance now at home. I would definitely sit down, watch it. Really enjoyed it quite a bit.
B
Especially if you need a break from sports. Yeah. As some of us do. Because I. I don't know, I just. I can feel it when it gets tiring a little bit to watch. First of all, the Bears game. I watch. You know, how intensely I watch Bears games and, you know, just taking copious notes and trying to make sure I'm on top of everything. And then I did the same with the Bulls game yesterday. And just after a while I need.
A
You know, it was funny. I went back to watch the game yesterday again and I had recorded it accidentally on the Spanish broadcast. So I watched it and it was even more enjoyable.
B
Spanish Tom Brady yeah, it was great.
A
It was. It was so much better. Whoever the Spanish broadcast team is that does the games, that's how I recorded it. And it was, it was fantastic. Really even more enjoyable. And to not hear Tom Brady do that game was even better. So I don't know if you saw this story from NWI times.com Northwest Indiana Times bears send trucks to drill test potential stadium site in Hammond oh, and there's an actual photo of some.
B
They're showing how serious they are. This is definitely not a bluff. This has nothing to do with leverage. Come follow this truck.
A
Yeah, here's the picture. It blacked out because I'm not subscribed. I subscribe to it, but that's what.
B
They Bears send trucks to drill test potential stadium site hey, this is not Kevin Warren and hi NWI Times, by the way, in case you want to know, you know there's a truck heading out there. Yeah, yeah. There's cranes in the sky and shovels in the ground and I just wanted to let you know in case you.
A
Want to take a picture, take a.
B
Picture of the truck that's headed out there. We're very serious about this. Read up about Planet Park. Go back. I sent you that tribute story about the silliness of the first time the Bears said they were going to move to Gary and the whole history of where they've said they were going to move and why they said Brad Biggs did a nice job in his 10 Things recapping the ongoing silliness of this. We're moving to Indiana. Okay.
A
All right.
B
All right. Have fun. And who cares if you do? Who cares if you do? If you do that, then another state will deal with the expense and the Chicago area will still. The people who go to games will still be able to go to games. Fine, fine. And then figure out how to fill the building. In other time, go ahead, let somebody else pay for it. And it doesn't really change the Bears experience in any way whatsoever. Time for DBU picks DBU picks are brought to you by my bookie and I missed on my two part parlay for the last game. I got the over on the Caleb Williams passing yards, but I did not. I missed by two and a half or three yards on my Deandre Swift receiving yards Bet. So I apologize. I've led you astray. I've led you wrong. What do you got, Maddie?
A
So I'm going to just look at tonight's game, and it's 49ers at the Colts. And the 49ers are laying five and a half on the road against Philip Rivers and the Colts. I am going to recommend because this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to give the five and a half points for the Niners on the road. I know it's big. It's a big number. And you got to a good running game in Indianapolis. You have a good defense on both sides of the ball. I'm going to go 49ers minus five and a half.
B
Okay. I am going to make my bet on the 49ers defense. I think that they are going to hold Philip Rivers. I can't believe I'm saying the name Philip Rivers. It's so weird.
A
Yeah, it's bizarre.
B
It's so weird. They don't pressure very much. They play a lot more coverage than they do pressure. And I think that they're going to hold philip rivers under 160.5 yards passing. He might have a lot of completions because I think they're going to try to get the ball out.
A
Yeah.
B
Quickly. And just let him take a step back and throw it to somebody and he knows where it can go. So maybe I'll do the over completions. Maybe I'll do that over the completions under the yards.
A
What's the completions?
B
I think it's 18.5. Okay.
A
And then the yards is 160.
B
160. So let's, let's. Let's do Philip Rivers over the 18. Is it 18.5 or 16.5? Now, I got to check. I'm going to say over the completions, under the yards. Okay. And I expect him to try to dink and dunk them down the field. There we go. Those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime.
A
All right, Looking at the Colts, I have a question for you. I haven't noticed this and maybe you have.
B
Yes.
A
So I'm looking@the NFL.com looking@team stats, and they have all the teams listed by name and then they have their logo right in front of the name.
B
Okay.
A
When did the Colts add an alternate logo? Have you noticed this before?
B
No.
A
They have a C instead of the horseshoe.
B
That looks like the Cleveland guardians.
A
No. So what it is, it's the blue sea that looks like a horseshoe still. But it's C for Colts in the center. Yeah, C for Colts. But the center of it is the.
B
Shape of sea for Indianapolis. Yeah.
A
Is the. I was. I had sarcasm. I just want to let it go. I'll let the rest of the people get comments. Rubber Steen. You. Anyway, what do you mean sea for cold?
B
Why do you hate the Bears in Luau? Cheese graters.
A
But. But the center of the sea is the shape of the state of Indiana, and it's an alternate logo called the Indiana Knights. It's when they wear, like, the black and blue uniforms. Have you. Have you noticed this before?
B
I have this.
A
I don't know how I've missed this. I've never seen this C logo before. It's always the horseshoe. But if you go on their website, it's intermixed. At times they use the seed, other times they have the horseshoe.
B
Okay. I didn't.
A
It's weird. I've never. I've never. I don't know how this is the first time. What is it, week 16? I'm noticing. Noticing this for the first time.
B
The only time I notice Lotus no gos notice the logos in football is when they're peeling off the helmet. Like Kyle Menunga, like, he's the best at it. That is a unique skill to be able to have the logo on your helmet, the sticker peel off every single game.
A
See, like, if you're on the Colts website, up here, Colts 49ers, they have the horseshoe. But then down here in the game preview, they have the C. So they must be wearing those uniforms tonight. Maybe that's when they do it. I don't know. But, I mean, but for NFL.com to do it.
B
Okay, well, that's fine.
A
Just weird, though. Like, it's the horseshoe.
B
That's.
A
That's what they are.
B
So I thought. And you're supposed to keep the horseshoe, the open side pointed upward because otherwise the luck drains out of it.
A
Oh, I've never heard that. That sounds stupid.
B
Well, I'm just.
A
That's dumb. Are you making that up, or is that, like, a thing?
B
I. Somebody told me that a long time ago.
A
I think your dad was just pulling your leg.
B
No, Somebody told me that you had your granddad.
A
Well, pulled you up on his knee, and it was funny.
B
I come from a long line of horsemen. You know that.
A
Let me tell you a story here.
B
I grew up with horses in my blood. I would go to the barn every morning and shoo the horses.
A
Yeah.
B
In Wayne, slop the pigs. I don't know. I would do something.
A
You do other things to pigs, that's for sure.
B
I do eat them a lot. I have not eaten the prosciutto. I have it. You know our longtime buddy, Glenn.
A
Great guy.
B
Oh, the best. Yep. He's so.
A
For years, he's what I'd call a real mensch.
B
For years, every time he's and his family have gone anywhere overseas or somewhere, he brings food back for us.
A
So so far, this, in the last four months, he sent us where the coffee was from. Where's the coffee from? Somewhere in South America.
B
Yeah, Peru or something like that then. Oh, he's brought us everything. They brought us cookies, he and his wife. And when their family goes away, or when he goes away with his wife, he always drops off. He works downt. Yeah. And he would come by the studios and he would drop off some sort of exotic. He brought me black pudding one time from England. Oh, wow. And he just. The guy brings.
A
Recently it's been the coffee and then this ham.
B
Oh, my God.
A
Dude, I don't know why you haven't eaten yet. I don't know what you're.
B
Because it's. I don't know. I don't want to disturb it yet. Maybe it needs to sit in age.
A
You need to eat it.
B
I know I do. I know I do. It's from Spain and it's. It's like the best serrano. It's called paleta because I think it's from the front leg. It's a whole story behind.
A
So I was going to add it to like, I was going to do like a charcuterie board for a little snack one night, and I opened it and I tasted a piece.
B
Oh, my God.
A
And then I stood at the kitchen counter and ate the entire package.
B
Yeah, that's kind of my worry, as happened to me. You know what I mean? You know what I need maybe cheese and a grater.
A
Yeah. But no, you don't want to. You don't want to.
B
You want sliced cheese for that. Why not a slicer?
A
I've always done grated cheese on my charcuterie boards. And people don't eat it. It's weird. They don't ever.
B
They're supposed to snort it. You take out a credit card, you know, you chop lines.
A
And then there's some parm.
B
Oh, that's good pecorino. Yeah, you rub a little, your teeth get a little pecorino freeze going there. Hey. Yeah. You missed some people coming out of the bathroom.
A
Yeah.
B
Yeah. Big pocket full of Pecorino Asiago. Do a little Pecorino bump.
A
Yeah.
B
Their long nail that they grow. Yeah.
A
Just like Junior, right?
B
Yep, Same thing. Yeah. Oh, that's good grated cheese. And that is Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Unfiltered. On three.
A
One, two, sports.
Podcast: Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Host: Dan Bernstein (DB) with Matt Abbatacola
Episode: Caleb Williams throw, a generational Moment for Bears | Chicago Bears win in OT over Packers
Date: December 22, 2025
This episode dives deep into an extraordinary Chicago Bears moment: rookie quarterback Caleb Williams’ overtime throw to defeat the Green Bay Packers at Soldier Field, a play that Dan Bernstein and Matt Abbatacola frame as truly “generational.” With their trademark blend of candor, humor, and passionate debate, they not only dissect the meaning of "generational" in sports, but also riff on Bears history, the evolving lore around the team's key moments, and contemporary Chicago sports culture.
Timestamp: 00:02–09:00
“We had on Saturday night what I think was indeed truly a generational moment.” — Dan (03:08)
“That’s the best throw from a Bears quarterback I’ve ever seen, is what he said.”—Dan (03:47)
Timestamp: 06:05–12:45
“It's hard for me to talk about generational talent when it comes to a football player, because so much has to happen around him for those moments to be made for that guy.” —Matt (09:02)
Timestamp: 10:12–13:00
Timestamp: 14:46–23:58
"The problem with the logic here is that cheese graters don’t destroy cheese. You can’t declare victory over cheese by grating it. What you’ve done is you’ve improved it." —Dan (18:01)
Timestamp: 24:35–30:13
Timestamp: 31:26–40:44
Timestamp: 32:07–39:44
Timestamp: 47:29–49:55
Timestamp: 51:57–54:13
This episode is a must-listen for Chicago sports fans—especially Bears faithful swept up in the euphoria and debate surrounding Caleb Williams’ transformative throw. It’s a passionate, funny, and wide-ranging discussion about how moments become folklore, why we care, and how tradition (or a cheese grater hat) sometimes makes us all just a little bit hungry—or at least, bemused.
For more sharp takes and Chicago sports cultural deep dives, tune in weekdays to Dan Bernstein Unfiltered.