Chicago Bears - Must Win Game in Minnesota

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – Episode Summary

Episode: Chicago Bears - Must Win Game in Minnesota

Date: November 14, 2025
Host: Dan Bernstein
Producer/Co-host: Matt Abbatacola

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Overview

This episode of Dan Bernstein Unfiltered is a lively, free-wheeling “Feedback Friday” show centered around the pivotal Chicago Bears game in Minnesota—a contest with major playoff implications. Dan and Matt blend smart Bears breakdowns, pop culture asides, and reader/listener feedback into a signature, irreverent episode, capped with their “Top 10 Vikings of All Time” (in every sense of the word). The show emphasizes community, deep Bears fandom, and the hosts’ unique brand of sharp, Chicago-style humor.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bears vs. Vikings: Playoff Stakes

• Playoff Leverage Explained:
  Dan introduces the concept of playoff leverage—how much a single game impacts postseason odds. For the Bears:
  • If the Bears win and go 7–3: Playoff chances rise to 66%
  • If they lose (drop to 6–4): Odds fall to 35%
  • “This is a 31% swing. Does that make this a playoff game?” – Dan (03:00)
• Must-Win Territory?:
  Matt agrees the divisional context adds gravity:
  “You go 0–3 in your division… Yeah, that's—I mean, that makes sense for sure.” (03:38)
• Segment Tone:
  Joking about podcast thumbnails and labeling it “must-win,” the hosts riff with ease, but the playoff math gives fans a concrete reason to care.

2. Feedback Friday: Listener Mailbag

• Getting “Chipped”:
  A listener named Joe responds to Chris Collinsworth’s “most chipped human being” comment (about T.J. Watt) with a hilarious personal anecdote:
  “After my son's mom and I… started dating a guy named Chip, to whom she has since gotten married. I’d like to throw my hat into the ring for getting chipped.” (07:44)
  The hosts riff on “Chip” references, including the movie Hitch.
• Personal Notes:
  Joe mentions being a Moody Bible alum and relates to the pod’s “rock bottom and rebuild” narrative. Dan gets heartfelt (09:30):
  “A lot of personal stuff... I appreciate it deeply and meaningfully. I do. I read everything… it really is appreciated.”
• Mental Health & Community:
  Dan and Matt encourage emails as a kind of catharsis and community:
  “If it helps, if it makes you feel better... Feel free to fire them away.” (11:00)
  Matt jokes he archives all the “negative ones” about himself.
• Hairline Hysteria:
  Matt mentions a comment about him potentially going bald:
  “Going bald is never gonna be a concern for me.” (11:45)
• Bears Season Vibe:
  Aaron from Galesburg nails the shift in Bears energy:
  “As a Bears fan, I sure feel like I finally found a spot at the cool kids table at lunch,” crediting new hope in the Bears’ leadership (13:05).
• Wisconsin Water Parks & Body Image:
  The topic pivots to Midwest water park culture, with zingers about feeling fit at a Wisconsin Dells waterpark and war stories from traveling hockey parents.

3. Radio & Technology Feedback

• No More AM Radios in EVs?:
  Listener Todd writes in: “Many of the new cars, particularly electric vehicles, do not have an AM radio receiver… manufacturers are omitting it.” (19:13)
  Brief discussion of radio tech and the challenges listening to talk radio in new vehicles.
• Pistons Radio Confusion:
  Feedback on Detroit Pistons radio broadcasters—“Neither one is particularly good at keeping up with the action...” (20:36)
  Jokes about old broadcasters not knowing who or where they are.

4. Quirky and Offbeat Feedback

• Team Chaplain:
  “Father Nick” from O’Fallon is anointed as the official DBU “team chaplain” (21:54), prompting playful talk about the rising clergy listenership.
• MLB Bobs Extinction:
  A listener notes the extinction of “Bob” as an MLB player name—Dan corrects: “Last year, the Tampa Bay Rays had a Bob… Now, the majors are indeed, once again, Bobless.” (23:36)
• NIU Football Oddities:
  Adam flags a Huskies game with both QBs having identical 3/4 passing stats. “Have you ever seen anything like that?” (24:36)
• Notre Dame Scheduling Rant:
  Matt unleashes over Notre Dame’s “independent” football status:
  “Stop acting like you’re some elite program, because you’re not.” (25:51)
• Beer Church Pizza Worship:
  Multiple listeners validate the crew’s earlier review: “The pizza at beer church… is not blow. That’s 1A and 1B. The ingredients tasted the exact same.” (27:56)

5. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “If the Bears win and go to 7 and 3, they have a 66% likelihood of making the playoffs. If they lose… drops to 35%.” – Dan (03:00)
• “Going bald is never gonna be a concern for me.” – Matt (11:45)
• “As a Bears fan, I sure feel like I finally found a spot at the cool kids table at lunch.” – Aaron from Galesburg (13:05)
• “Thank you for bringing to our attention the existence of Schrodinger’s Brian Kelly—a theoretical person who exists in a quantum state in which they both are and are not the coach of LSU football.” – Kevin in Jefferson Park (27:56)
• “That description of NBA All-Star insanity read like the instructions to a board game that ends in divorce.” – Kevin in Jefferson Park (29:10)
• “Our pizza is partially baked... Make sure you put the pizza in the oven cheese side up.” – Dan, reading a real warning from a Home Run Inn pizza box (31:38)

6. Bears, Food, and Life Tangents

• Dead Bunnies in the Window Well:
  Matt tells a morbidly funny story about finding dead rabbits in his basement window well, lamenting the effort to get rid of them and ingloriously humming “Circle of Life” from The Lion King as he disposes of critters. (38:59)
• Chicago Pizza & Oven Grinder:
  On unique Chicago pizzas served “pot pie style”, the guys conspire a post-show lunch and share nap habits.

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Segment Highlight: “Top 10 Vikings of All Time” (40:12–52:27)

A perfect storm of Chicago snark and trivia! Both hosts, and their "committee," blend real Minnesota Vikings, Norse legends, kitchen appliances, and pop culture.

Committee’s Top 10 Vikings

1. Hagar the Horrible (comic strip legend)
2. Tarvold (“Viking Quest” from Entourage)
3. The Northman (film)
4. Viking Cruises
5. Ragnar Lothbrok (Norse legend)
6. Viking Appliances (notably the stove/range)
7. Jim Marshall (NFL DE—“The Wrong Way Run”)
8. Eric the Red (Norse explorer)
9. Leif Erikson (first European in America)
10. The Vikings (1958 film)

• Honorable Mentions: Thor, Beowulf

Notable Quotes:

• “Whenever I’m watching a show… and I see a Viking range, I’m always like, ooh, that’s pretty.” – Matt (46:47)
• “Jim Marshall makes the list at number seven… 20-year NFL career, but remembered for that wrong-way run.” (45:09)
• “Thor played a prominent role in Norse mythology… dreamy blue eyes, Australian accent…” – Matt, editorializing, to Dan’s mock accusations (42:13)

Dan’s Counter-List Highlights

• Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (protagonist of How to Train Your Dragon)
• Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” Protagonist
• Andy ‘The Viking’ Fordham (darts legend)
• Elmer Fudd as a Viking in ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’
• Viggo Mortensen (just because he’s “awesome and big fan of Vigo”)
• Viking Award (for Swedish hockey players)
• Personalized Viking Range Story (Dan’s kitchen centerpiece)

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Bears-Vikings Picks & Predictions (76:27–78:54)

• Matt’s Picks:

  • Pitt +11.5 vs. Notre Dame
  • Georgia -6 vs. Texas
  • Bears Game: J.J. McCarthy under 219.5 passing yards; Caleb Williams over 1.5 passing TDs

• Dan’s Picks:

  • Bears +3 (vs. Vikings): “I believe the Bears will be within that three-point margin at the very least.”
  • DeAndre Swift Over 58.5 rushing yards

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Tone and Format

• Language/Tone: Chicago sharp, playful, direct, with frequent deadpan and inside jokes. The back-and-forth is casual but insightful, with Dan’s dry wit and Matt’s easy counterpunches.
• Listener Involvement: The show is built on listener/community engagement—serious emails, quirky comments, and personal stories.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Bears Playoff Math & Stakes: 02:25–04:14, 09:09
• Must-Win Game Debate: 03:38–04:14
• Feedback Friday Begins: 06:32
• Joe’s “Getting Chipped” Email: 07:25–08:59
• Sentimental Discussion on Listener Emails: 09:30–11:00
• Hairline & Hats Banter: 11:22–12:00
• Aaron on New Bears Vibes: 13:04
• Wisconsin Waterpark/Hockey Parents Stories: 15:00–17:18
• AM Radio in Electric Vehicles: 19:13
• Pistons Radio Announcer Feedback: 19:56–21:07
• “Schrodinger’s Brian Kelly & NBA All-Star Confusion: 27:56–29:39
• Home Run Inn Pizza Box Warning (cheese-side-up): 30:38–32:11
• Dead Bunnies Window Well Story: 36:21–39:59
• Top 10 Vikings Starts: 40:12
  • Jim Marshall “Wrong Way Run”: 44:53–45:54
  • Viking Appliances Discussion: 46:34–48:00
  • Northman Film: 49:38
• DBU Picks (Bears/Vikings): 76:27–78:54

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Final Thoughts

For Chicago Bears fans and Windy City sports lifers, this episode delivers equal parts smart football analysis, cathartic fan therapy, towering irreverence, and offbeat humor. Whether you want locker-room playoff breakdowns or a serious debate about the greatest Vikings (Norse or culinary), Dan Bernstein Unfiltered delivers—with two decades’ worth of Chicago wisdom and wit.

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Notable Episode Quote:
“Thank you for bringing to our attention the existence of Schrodinger’s Brian Kelly—a theoretical person who exists in a quantum state in which they both are and are not the coach of LSU football.” – Kevin (Listener), 27:56

Transcript

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Hey, it's Feedback Friday. It's our top 10 Vikings. I'm. I'm great.

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Did you get that thing out?

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I did.

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Okay.

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Good pitch of despair. Yeah, we're all good.

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You know, I doing this podcast. I. I thought, all right, good. Which. It's unfiltered. There's no restrictions. We can. We can do stuff and say things. Yet there's still bits that we're not going to do on the podcast. Like we just did.

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Well, that's just you entertaining yourself by being a dick.

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No, I meant the thing before that.

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Oh, that thing.

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Yeah, that. We can't. We can't do that.

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No.

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Because I would like to, but we just can't.

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I know. Well, but.

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I was like, finally, we could do whatever we want.

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No, probably not. My guess is no.

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It's a good. It's great though. I would see that movie.

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We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie. And just a quick note before we do our feedback Friday.

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Our tings.

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Yeah, our Friday things. Do you know about playoff leverage? I don't know exactly how it's calculated, but I know there are those for the NFL. Yeah. That look at whatever metrics. Yeah.

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You win this game, you're this likely, you lose it or your record starts out.

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Sure. Do you know what the Bears playoff leverage differential is for Sunday's game in Minnesota.

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I don't, but I'm going to the way you're asking, I'm going to suggest that it's a significant drop if they lose.

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Check this out.

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Okay.

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If the Bears win and go to 7 and 3, they have a 66% likelihood of making the playoffs.

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Okay, I'll take that.

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If they lose and are 6 and 4 instead of 7 and 3 drops to 40.

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Something.

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47, 35. It is a 31% swing of playoff possibility with this game. So I would ask you, does that make this a playoff game?

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Yeah, it makes it a pretty. I mean, obviously being in the. In the division is why it's such a big drop. I mean, if this is a random AFC game, it would drop, but it wouldn't drop as big. But you. You go, Owen, three in your division to start, and you have to fight to get to be three and three. Yeah, no, that's. I mean, that makes sense for sure.

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I don't know exactly how it's calculated.

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But this is like an important game. Is it an important game?

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I think we may have determined Must win. This is a. An important outcome for the Bears.

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Must win game.

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So you can put it in the thumbnail.

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No, no. My thumbnail's already done.

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No, you're trying to coax this out of me. No, I'm not.

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My thumbnail's done already. I already did it. It's. What is it today? Is it Friday?

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Feedback.

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So the day goes second. So it's Feedback Friday. So the activity into the day.

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Feedback Friday.

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Feedback Friday. And then we have top 10 Vikings alphabetically.

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Yeah. Well, they're both before fr.

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But f and F are the same thing.

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Yeah, I know, but you go to the next letter. You never done alphabetization before.

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Yes.

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So it's Feedback Friday.

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Yeah. I was always first in everything. I'm sure you were until there was a girl in high school, her last.

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Name was Abad, who was sitting in front of you.

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She was Abad.

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Okay. Yeah. I thought she had a bod. As you were saying.

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No. Oh, okay. No.

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Okay.

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I wouldn't objectify a woman like that.

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Of course you wouldn't abide. Got it.

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Yep.

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So the Bears playoff percentage, a win, 66%. A loss, 35%.

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All right.

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And when we do the.

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I guess I'll watch.

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Now you've given me a reason to tune in.

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Good job, Dan.

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And then when we do our DBU picks today that are also brought to you by my bookie, maybe that will indicate some thoughts that I've Been having about this game.

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I took a different angle on my picks for today.

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Okay.

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Yeah. I took a page out of your book.

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Ooh.

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Yeah.

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Ooh. So, like, thinking it through.

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Yeah, I did some. I thought. I thought a little bit about it.

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Fun.

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Looked at some things.

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Yeah. It makes it fun, doesn't it? Yeah.

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It took longer, doesn't it?

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Yep. Well, it took me a while on the top 10 Vikings. This trip around, I have to tell you, because we did our first run through that, created this stupid segment.

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Yeah.

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The idea that we actually started talking about real Vikings and then it became a thing.

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Yeah. Well, this is the committee's first goal at Vikings.

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That's right. The committee never.

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The committee never. Yeah, the committee never. We put the committee together after that show.

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Okay. I learned a lot.

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So I'm very excited because when I saw the list this morning from the committee, there's a couple on there that I was really impressed with.

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Really? Do you tell them that?

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No, no, I don't give them any feedback. We do that on Tuesdays.

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You and the committee have a feedback Tuesday?

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Yes.

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Okay, so let's get started with our dbu. Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Feedback Friday. And it's everything we've talked about. And I save the good stuff. I toss the bad stuff. But I do see everything that you email in. I can't say that I see everything on all social media. Cause I don't. Just for mental health purposes. That's a decision that I make. But I do try to respond to direct messages and some of those things and people send me stuff and all that. This came in from Joe, and we were talking about the statement that Chris Collinsworth made about T.J. watt when he said he's the most chipped human being on earth when it comes to football.

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If this is the email I think it is, this is great.

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Well. And I just said, like, how else can you be chipped outside of football? And we went through ways that one could be chipped. Are you given chips in a casino? Are you given potato chips? Are you turned into potato chips? Are you placed into a wood chipper and you're literally chipped?

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All very good.

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Don't know. So Joe said, after my son's mom and I, our relationship ended. She moved out, and a month later, she started dating a guy named Chip, to whom she has since gotten married. I would like to throw my hat into the ring for getting chipped.

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It's very good.

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And parenthetically, he said he's actually wonderful, but the name stings. And my friends don't let me forget it. So I immediately started laughing because all I could think of was Skip Perry, the son of the happy legendary Harry died in his sleep. Make that his son Chip.

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That and I think of his Skip.

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Make that Chip.

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The movie Hitch with Fresh Prince Will Smith. Did you ever see Hitch? He's like, he sets people up on dates and.

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Are you sure it wasn't Fiddler on the Roof?

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The positive. Eva Mendez is in it also. And some guy at a bar hits on her and he's like, my friends call me Chip. And she's like, you can't make him stop. I just, I always think of that when I hear Chip. That was a great email, though.

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Joe also said, very good email. He said, I'm loving the shows. As a fellow Moody Bible alum, I get teary eyed every time Matty makes a smart observation.

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Aw, that's sweet.

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Isn't that nice?

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Yeah. Go Moody Archers.

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And he said, your podcast format is so much better than having to listen to 676 7. I wonder how that's happening. He says, I'm planning on making a beer church pilgrimage in the very near future.

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Be better.

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He also said, as someone who's had my own version of rock bottom and rebuilt my life via therapy, your story and your arc are important. Thank you, Joe. Let me. And with that, let me also say that I'm not. There's a lot of personal stuff that I get all the time. A lot of these emails that come in are very personal and I always respond, so. But I also want to say publicly in this space, thank you.

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Yep.

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Really, really thank you. And there's a lot of really meaningful stuff and a lot of real sharing that's been going on. And I know it's not easy. I know it's not easy to sit down and send an email to somebody you never met and a very deeply personal email to somebody you've never met. Even though you feel like we've sort of had this relationship over airwaves or whatever now constitute airwaves for a long time, I appreciate it deeply and meaningfully. I do. And I read everything that you send and it really does. You know, my wife wants me to save all these things. She goes, oh, my God, you should be archiving all these. You should. This should be. You should put it together and leave it for people. If you ever feel down, you should go back and read all these things that people are saying and feeling they should share with you. And I don't know that I Agree with her on all of that. But she says she's like, well, fine, I'm gonna save them for you then. But it really is appreciated.

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Yeah, no, it's great. And if it helps to get some stuff off your chest, feel free to email us anytime. Seriously, I mean that. Yeah, if it helps, if it makes you feel better. And yeah, maybe you don't have someone you can talk to, but you can, you can take your fingers to the keyboard and get some thoughts off. Feel free to fire them away. So I go and I'm archiving all the. All the negative ones about me, so. And I read those.

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Those are fun too.

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I like those. So I actually have one I want to respond to. I normally don't, but there was one. It was a comment on one of the YouTube comment sections in one of the shows asking if I was going bald because I always wear hats.

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You?

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Yeah, which is why I haven't worn a hat the last couple days. I just need a haircut really bad. My hair is really, really long right now.

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Please. Probably blessed with one of the great heads of hair all the time.

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Going bald is never gonna be a concern for me.

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You're gonna be one of those white haired, like mogul looking guys, overhand smoker. I'm telling you, you're gonna have that whole sort of. That. Yeah, yeah.

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I'm thinking about taking up smoking. So I bet if I do, I'm definitely going that route.

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And you'll have it. You'll have a little glass of Campari.

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I would love. You know what? I would like to have a glass Campari, but I won't. But I would like to. Although I did find on our cruise Liars L Y R E S the brand. It's a non alcoholic spirit. And they have an orange bitter, like an Italian orange bitter.

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You can do like an apple spritz.

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Well, no, you could. Well, well, I would do it for a Negroni or a Bovardier, but just drink it by itself. A Bovardier is a Negroni, but you substitute bourbon for the gin.

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Oh, I. Because I don't like gin.

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Yeah, I normally don't, which is why I started drinking Bovardiers when I was. So it was. Yeah, bourbon and then the bourbon and what are the other two things? Vermouth and what's the. Oh, and then the Campari. Yeah, but this liar's brand is really good. So I could get some of that and do that while I have my unfiltered cigarettes. All you want is an unfiltered.

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No you're not going bald.

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Not going bald. Yeah, which is why I have a bald.

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Far from it.

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Yeah.

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This is Aaron in Galesburg. I put my finger on why this Bears season, while still firmly in the blob, feels so different. For so many years, everything about the Bears has been weird. Whether it's the Tressman era or people in positions of power looking like George McFly, John Fox and the mumbling nonsense, Matt Negy and the college level names for a high school offense. I'm not going to address the floose. But when my instinct starts me down this path of familiar sadness and hopelessness, there he stands, Ben fucking Johnson, looking like the cool kid in high school. Confidence oozing from those facial expressions and body language. He's smarter than the other guy. There's a long way to go. It's gonna take time. But as a Bears fan, I sure feel like I finally found a spot at the cool kids table at lunch.

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Bears on three.

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One, two, three. Mr. Pouty Pants. Remember him?

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I do.

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When we were talking about the fan fiction that's being written about Matt LaFleur by Wisconsin women that apparen, he is quite the sex symbol. He says, of course the women of Wisconsin are writing sexy fan fiction about Matt LaFleur. We may think he's just a generally handsome guy. In Wisconsin, he's a 12.

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Oh, he's an 18. In Wisconsin, he's a 12.

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He said, think about it.

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I'm a 12 in Wisconsin.

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He looks well groomed, but he's not too fancy because his wardrobe is almost exclusively packers stuff.

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Yeah, no, that's great.

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That's right. So he looks like he's. He's dressed like every other guy. He just looks better.

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Yeah, exactly.

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He's in better shape. Right.

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Well, again.

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By. By their standards. Correct. This is Rick who emails to say.

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Hey, if you're ever feeling bad about your physique as a man, take your family up to any water park in Wisconsin.

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Take your shirt off, you're good to go. If you've ever, ever been a hockey parent in the Chicago area, you've made the Dells trip, okay.

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Oh, yeah. We do that for basketball.

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And you have stayed at one of the big water parks.

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I think Kalahari. Is that where we stayed?

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I think we stayed one time there. Is it Great Wolf, Black Wolf, One of them.

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Great Wolf Lodge is one. But there's one in Gurnee, too, which also, if you want to.

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All I know is I got there because Terry and I, we were doing it. We did A show at Dirty Nellie's in Pal, and I had to race.

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Up one of the great Suburban.

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Oh. Oh. It was awesome. So I said, look, right after the show, I'm gonna drive up. I'll meet everybody at the Dells. And by the time I got there, Jason already had a black eye and a huge cut on his head from shitty hockey in the hallways.

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Oh, okay.

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Because that's when hockey, you get these mic teams and squirt teams that are up there playing hockey. They never stop. So they're in the hallway playing, like knee hockey and shinny hockey. And he took a stick to the face.

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Nice.

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I leave the kid for an hour or whatever it was.

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Well, but the thing was that you're not going to tell anybody is that he hit himself in the face with a stick.

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It wouldn't surprise me.

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Yes.

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At least then he wasn't drunk. As far as I know, the parents all were.

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Oh, I'm sure the parents were. And then we.

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One year we stayed at this really, like, rinky dink, low rent, bedbug, horrible place in the Dells.

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Nice. But we set that up. But we had the team parent, but.

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We basically had the hotel all to ourselves.

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Okay.

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And took over the pool completely. The entire area wasn't. It had a couple slides. I mean, it was just like a regular pool. But the dads got absolutely wasted. And it was like belly flop competition and stacking plastic chairs up, teetering on the top of plastic chairs. And I'm the one going, oh, God, liability, liability, liability. And I'm just terrified that we're gonna get blamed for something or something horrible is gonna happen and the team's gonna get sued and the league is gonna get. So, you know, it was hard.

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Gardens of Evil is the unbelievable story of the Zion Society cult told by those who lived it. Find Gardens of Evil inside the Zion Society cult. Wherever you listen to podcasts, I want to mention too a 14 teams have already hung 40 or more on the board this year. Overs are printing. My bookie is where you can cash in on every single one of them. My bookie has everything you need, everything you like. Game lines, player props, same game parlays. Whatever you play, my bookie has it. At the moment, you can unlock a very special promotion at MyBookie AG. But you have to have this code. Three letters, DBU. Use that code when you sign up or deposit to receive a bonus bet credit. Whether you're building your bankroll or looking to hit the lotto with with Moneybagg, you can bet on anything, anytime, anywhere. With my bookie.

[B]

I have one I wanna share too. Cause I learned something yesterday. So thank you to the listeners. This came in from Todd Middleton, Wisconsin. He says many of the new cars, particularly electric vehicles, do not have an AM radio receiver.

[A]

I had this in my list.

[B]

Oh, do you?

[A]

I'm sorry. No, no. I'm glad you got to this.

[B]

The EV electrical system interferes with the AM signal. And rather than just have static, EV manufacturers are omitting it. Now. I don't know if he's, if he's accurate, if that's true. Okay. I just, I took him at his, at his email to be true. Is that. Was that what. Does Beth have an electrical vehicle?

[A]

She does not. Okay. But apparently it's also a, it's just a Volvo thing. Now that a lot of their cars don't have AM radio and they do have fmhd, but you gotta kind of find it.

[B]

So if you're trying to listen to regular like talk radio on an AM dial, you're not gonna. If you have a new car, an electric car.

[A]

We also got some feedback when I was talking about the Pistons radio call. Oh yeah, there was some dispute. It's like an open ended hockey question. Cause I listened to some of it here and there. They never identified themselves. And one guy said, look, there are two guys who do Pistons radio. They're both old and out of touch and have trouble seeing. One is named Mark Champion, 70 something. The other is George Bl, who's 80, who's 80, who sometimes does radio and occasionally will do a TV simulcast. So it's possible that you heard him doing a TV simulcast. But he said no matter what he said, neither one is particularly good at keeping up with the action that's going on.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

So those were the Pistons fans.

[B]

Your assessment was correct. You just may have had the wrong guy. I don't know if I identified, but you may have also had the correct broadcaster.

[A]

Correct.

[B]

It could have been George or could have been Mark.

[A]

All I know is I had no idea what was going on in the game regardless. And I didn't know who it was. They didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what was going on, and we don't know who it was.

[B]

I love the idea of George being home, though, on his recliner with his grandson at the game, calling him or Mark, too.

[A]

Yeah, George's grandkid calling, trying to explain what was actually happening in a game, ostensibly in front of them.

[B]

Just whoever was. Just better keep an eye on their grandkids before they're buried with Johnny Red Kerr children and their son Chip next Tuesday. That was my favorite part, is that they know what's happening. Hey, kids, have a seat. Gotta break some news to you. Two days from now, you're all getting buried.

[A]

Oh, that sucks.

[B]

What do you guys want to eat?

[A]

Tacos?

[B]

Let's go.

[A]

Our official clergyman of the show. Do you remember Father Nick from o'? Fallon?

[B]

Have we talked about him?

[A]

This Father Nick has checked in before. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's checked in before. So I've decided that we're going to make him the team chaplain. Okay. That's it. Father Nick, whether you want it or not, you are now the official DBU team chaplain.

[B]

Big responsibility.

[A]

It is a lot of work and potential liability.

[B]

Oh, God. Yeah.

[A]

But that's it. So he said, hey, guys, thanks for the Papal movies segment that catered to what is no doubt an increasing number of clergy within the DBU community. We're really big. We're big in the church, he said. I don't know Pope Leo personally, but I do know a couple of Augustinian priests who do, and they've mentioned to me he still keeps in touch with family and members of his religious community by text and continues to sign his emails.

[B]

Bob, Seriously?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he adds, on a related note, I don't know if you caught the Wall Street Journal article about the decline in the use of the name Bob among MLB players. It mentioned the last player to go by that particular diminutive, former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Bob howery back in 2010. Hard to believe. And I wrote him back and I said, not true. Last year, the Tampa Bay Rays had a Bob. Bob Seymour was the first MLB Bob since Bob Howery. But Bob Seymour has just. All they said was he got out of his contract with the Rays to sign with a team in Asia. Now, there's been speculation that it's Korea. Speculation is Taiwan. Don't know exactly where it is. I don't think it's the npb. But, hey, man. Viacon Dios, Bob. And come back to the majors anytime. As of right now, the majors are indeed, once again, Bobless.

[B]

That's insane.

[A]

I know.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Everybody's named Bob. When we were growing up, did you.

[B]

See this email from Adam who brought attention to the NIU football game the other night?

[A]

I believe it had to do with the quarterbacking stats.

[B]

Yeah. So Niu played UMass and they won. 45 to 3 was the final score. And so I'm like, all right. I had no idea this game was even happening. So I go and I look at the box score because Adam pointed out the NIU quarterbacks. There was two quarterbacks that played for the Huskies. They each had four attempts. So eight total attempts, six combined completions. They both went three for four. One through for 73 yards, one through four, 42 yards. They both had a touchdown. No interceptions. Passer ratings of a QBR. QBR of 156.25 and 156.25.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

6 of 8, 115 yards, 2 touchdowns, 156.4 or 25. Have you ever seen anything like that?

[A]

I don't think so.

[B]

Ever. Right?

[A]

High school, maybe.

[B]

Yeah. Never at the college level?

[A]

Another D1 level.

[B]

Right. Six for eight, 115 yards, two touchdowns. QBRS of 156.25.

[A]

Look at the rushing totals. They're like three guys over 60 yards or four guys. It was just a bizarre game.

[B]

98, 86, 60. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm sorry I missed that game.

[A]

That's your conclusion? That's all it was?

[B]

Yeah, it's all. No, I just know that boxer. I've never seen that before.

[A]

Darrell and Wood. Dale said, question and feedback. Matty, you absolutely lost your mind. That man's nuts. Grab him about Notre Dame football being independent. So which conference would you like to see them join outside of the sec? I don't know if joining a conference would make their path to the CFP any more difficult or easier. The dregs of the ACC, anybody outside of Ohio State in the Big Ten. And then he had Big 12 negative Ghost Rider.

[B]

No, I sure sec great if they'll take them. Big Ten. Yeah, absolutely. I don't care. I don't care. But I don't want you to be able to pick your own schedule and then get to be placed in the top 10. You don't deserve it. I mean, more than half of the teams they're playing are below.500. They're shit teams. So the Bears do that in a conference, that's fine. Great. Get into a conference. Be part of something. Stop being. Stop acting like you're some elite program, because you're not. You're not an elite program. Yeah, you made it last year. Great. Good for you. But I just. I don't like the fact that they can be independent. And there are. There are more than eight teams better than they are right now. They're not with this schedule. It's just not. Stop telling me that shit.

[A]

More than eight teams. Okay?

[B]

They're ranked nine and they shouldn't be. They're not a top 10 team, not with that schedule. And they still got two shitty teams coming up in Syracuse and Stanford who are combined 6, 6 and 14. So. No, they're not.

[A]

There are. There was also. I want to mention a lot of feedback from people talking about beer church.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

So many people who have said, oh, my God, it's even better than I. Than. Than I thought. You. I thought you guys were just blowing smoke and you weren't. That was. That's been really cool.

[B]

Yeah. I'm telling you, it's. It's legit. That the pizza is absolutely legit.

[A]

More than just the pizza.

[B]

But, yeah, everything's great. But you're talking about Neapolitan style pizza again. I'm in Naples three. Three months ago. It's the closest thing I've ever had. The pizza I had in Naples was the best thing I've ever eaten. It was insane. And to have the guy, the pizziola come out and make it right in front of us, it was just. It was an experience I'll never forget. And the pizza at beer church, again, is A, not blow. That's 1A and 1B. And I mean that legitimately. The ingredients tasted the exact same. I cannot wait to go back and have it because it's a lot closer than going to Naples.

[A]

Let me close out feedback Friday with this from Kevin in Jefferson park with a couple of observations here that I found very entertaining. Kevin said, thank you for bringing to our attention the existence of Schrodinger's Brian Kelly, a theoretical person who exists in a quantum state in which they both are and are not the coach of LSU football. That's such a great story depending on where you look. Has Brian Kelly actually been fired? Did he agree to leave? Is he coaching lsu? Is he not coaching lsu? And then he also reacted to our description of the NBA All Star Game and how byzantine the format is for whatever the NPA is trying to do. That's completely incomprehensible. They're so excited about launching this and rolling it out and I don't get it.

[B]

Yeah, I don't get it. And when you were reading through it and it just kept getting worse and worse and worse and then the cherry on top of the Sunday was they're going to use the hockey game as a lead in for it.

[A]

So he said that description of NBA All Star insanity read like the instructions to a board game that ends in divorce. He said I love it in direct comparison to hockey and hockey's grand events that all have descriptions that boil down to yeah, we're gonna get a bunch.

[B]

Of guys together and play or whatever.

[A]

And he says the NBA has finally found a way to defeat AI. If you feed that all star game description into ChatGPT for summary, the next thing you would hear from the app would be a gunshot and a thud. Kevin, thank you. And that is going to wrap this Friday's edition of Feedback Friday.

[B]

I love the emailers that send in and they respond to every topic on that particular show. Oh yeah, I just. I think it's great. Here's my thoughts on everything that you just talked about.

[A]

Why not And I can cherry pick from them. That is the really funny clever all that.

[B]

There was something I wanted to share with you and I was saving it for today and it was. It happened the other night. The boys got hungry late and they wanted a pizza. So I had a home run in pizza one of the giant home run in thin like ultra thin crust pizzas and for whatever reason and I saved the I flattened the box out after I put the pizza in and then.

[A]

I use that plate.

[B]

Yeah I use that as the plate have to mandatory so it was on the counter and I was just standing over it waiting for the pizza and I happened to look down and I read the cooking directions. Have you ever done that?

[A]

All the time. I make like I always with those pizzas. They know their product. They know I almost I try to follow them to the letter.

[B]

I don't I the only thing I look at for a pizza is is the temperature like what they suggest as temperature that's the only thing I look at. I just look and see what the temperature is.

[A]

Your oven.

[B]

Yeah, well, yeah. And so I just look at it because I don't. I don't cook. I don't cook pasta or pizza based on time. It's all based on. On taste and. Or appearance. Okay.

[A]

So if I see the pizza looks, well, pasta. Absolutely. Multiple tastes. Oh, no.

[B]

People. People do timers and, like, walk away from pasta. You're making it too sugary. You're ruining the texture.

[A]

So cooking.

[B]

And anyway, so I'm looking at the back of the pizza box, and this was on the back of the home run in pizza box. Because this had happened before, otherwise you wouldn't have these instructions.

[A]

Is this a warning? Because somebody was stupid.

[B]

Our pizza is partially baked and the cheese is melted, covering the sauce. Make sure you put the pizza in the oven cheese side up.

[A]

No, no, really.

[B]

It says it on the box.

[A]

Somebody put the pizza in cheese, sat down and got mad at them.

[B]

And they got mad at them and called and complained because all the cheese melted through the grates onto the bottom of their oven. So someone at home run in, said instructions on there that say, no, it's.

[A]

Some lawyer said, hey, I hate to make you do this, but we gotta do this.

[B]

Make sure you put the pizza in the oven cheese side up.

[A]

It's a good thought.

[B]

Yeah, it's a great thought.

[A]

The only place that wouldn't do that would be Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder on Clark Street.

[B]

Oh, because that's. You said that's in a. Like in a bowl or. Correct. Yeah. Okay.

[A]

Every pizza is a. Essentially a pot pie.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And it comes out looking like a pot pie.

[B]

We had to do. We need to do it.

[A]

And then they turn the bowl over and they pick up the bowl, and then it just becomes a pizza.

[B]

All right, we should. We need to do, like, a show outing there. We'll do. Let's go for lunch one day.

[A]

When Beth and I, even before we got married, we used to go there. We loved it there.

[B]

Oh, yeah. I've never been. So I want to go. We should go to. We should do it one day after. After a show and go for lunch.

[A]

Because then I got a nap lunch. If I do it.

[B]

Well, not together, but you can go home and nap.

[A]

I didn't say nap together.

[B]

Oh, like, I didn't say we have to hold you at this table.

[A]

I just sort of.

[B]

Put your head down, Dan.

[A]

Lean over like a little baby.

[B]

Did I get you guys anything? No, I'm good.

[A]

He's sleeping. It's fine. We're just take me out in the bucket, wait until he wakes up, snap him into the thing in the car, and drive around for a while. Northwood was a quiet, idyllic American suburb, but the beautiful landscaping hid a dark secret. The horror that happened inside those homes was such a pretty facade, it just didn't make sense. The immaculate yards were designed by retired landscaper Arvin Shreve. He reminded me of Mr. Rogers, but Arvin was not who he appeared to be.

[B]

He's proclaiming to be a prophet.

[A]

Arvin's message was, if you do all.

[B]

These things for me sexually, then I have a key to get you into heaven.

[A]

My mom took me to this house, and then I never lived with her again. My podcast, Gardens of Evil tells the unbelievable story of the Zion Society cult and an investigator who rescued dozens of children from the clutches of a predator. It reveals tactics used by abusers like Arvin or anyone who manipulates for their own selfish ends. And it's the story of resilient survivors who are finding ways to heal three decades later. Forgive yourself. Keep moving forward. You didn't know any better. Find Gardens of Evil inside the Zion Society cult, wherever you listen to podcasts. If you need windows, and I know you probably need windows, if you own a house and you haven't redone your windows in a while, it's. It means you're probably losing money because you got these old windows that aren't holding the temperature of the house in there and, or sliding better and all the other stuff that comes with it. We'll call Russ Armstrong because Russ is the owner of Chicago Window Guys. And just like he did for me, he'll come over and he'll look around and he nods and he makes notes and he writes it down and he tells you all about windows. And I try to retain everything he told me about windows, but I basically am only retaining that he's going to give me the great windows at a great deal with no subcontracted employees. Meaning all the people that come over and install everything are all his people. Same people that install mine and are going to install my new ones anytime will be installing yours. He'll match any price. All the crazy stuff you hear from these giant, you know, out of area window companies that have like some local affiliate here that they make some sound local, but they're not really local. And they say it's buy one, get one free. Russ is going to explain to you what the real economics are of windows and then give you the best deal he's going to match anything that anybody else is promising. 847-302-9171. Check out his 5 star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com and know that he's got a special guarantee. It's a lifetime guarantee on parts and labor. You don't have to do the entire house, but if there's a room where you spend a lot of your time, you say, look, we just want it to be more comfortable in here. He can handle that. So call Russ right now. Call Chicago Window guys, and they can get you on the schedule. Russ can come out and get you taken care of. 847-302-9-171 chicagowindowguys.com before we get into the.

[B]

Top 10 Vikings, I have one other thing I need to. I need to ask your opinion of. Well, I had to share something. I discovered this last night.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

So Jackie's down in the basement. He's watching Thursday Night Football. Mm. And there's a. There's a window.

[A]

I was watching it, too. It was bad.

[B]

Yeah, it was bad. Although I like. Did you like the Patriots uniforms?

[A]

I did once I realized my TV was okay. Cause they. They look kind of like washed out. And I thought there was something weird going on with the tv.

[B]

So I was sitting at the. At the island in the kitchen, and so I'm across the room from the tv, and I. I glanced over and I thought something was wrong with my tv. I was like, oh, the color's off.

[A]

I immediately thought that somebody, like, turned down the color knob.

[B]

So. And I was. Yeah. And I wondered, well, how would that have happened? So I walked over to the TV and I saw. Oh, they're different uniforms. I.

[A]

Them.

[B]

I thought they were cool. So he's watching the game Drake May Boy. And there's a. There's a window, and it's. It's. So there's a window well, but the top of the window well is below the deck. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, so it's not like there's a plastic cover that I can just lift the COVID off and get into the window well. Okay, so it's really weird. There's no light at all that comes through. There's no possibility of it.

[A]

It's animals in that window well.

[B]

So Jackie comes upstairs and he says, dad, there's two bunnies in the window well. And I'm like, okay. So I go down there, and they're not. They're not babies.

[A]

Possums.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

They possums?

[B]

No, they're Bunnies. Okay, there's two of them, and they're.

[A]

They're.

[B]

They're not doing good. Oh, I'm knocking on the window, and nothing's happening.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

So now I need to get into the window.

[A]

Well, my bunny.

[B]

Yeah, that's right. My bunnies.

[A]

My bunny. This one's dead. And dead, too.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. So both dead. Yeah, they're both. Yeah. And again, they're not. Like. They're not babies. They're so. I don't know if the snow. It was the weather got. I don't know what happened or how. I don't even. Not sure how they even got in there.

[A]

If you leave them out there, a coyote will probably come take them, but.

[B]

No, but the coyote won't be able to get into it.

[A]

Oh, but you can take them and, you know, throw them out.

[B]

Oh, no, I always. Whenever there's a Dead critters. Yeah. Like if a bird flies into the window or when. When Izzy was hunting the bunnies in the yard in the pond.

[A]

Oh, just toss him.

[B]

Oh, I get it. No, I don't use my hand. I get a shovel, and I walk across the street to the pond, and the entire time I'm doing it, I'm singing the Circle of Life song from Lion King.

[A]

Yeah. Oh, I thought you'd be singing, like, the Godfather theme, something.

[B]

Oh, I guess I probably should have. Whenever Izzy killed him. The Godfather waltz. No, I always do Circle of Life.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where the mandrill is holding up.

[B]

But I have a shovel. Yeah. And I have a dead bird.

[A]

It's. I mean, it's more. Or maybe like the Sopranos.

[B]

Yeah, I could do that. That's a good. So there's a. There's a little. There's, like, a lad. There's a. Like, a hatch. A door in the deck with, like, a giant nail. This wasn't a deck that I built. It was there when we moved in. And it's hard to open, so I'm concerned I won't be able to get into the deck to get these bunnies before things go bad.

[A]

You probably have a nest in there. They're probably living under.

[B]

Oh, they're. They're definitely living under the deck.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Because there's, again, like, our neighborhood, we walk the dogs, and I see at least. At least 10 bunnies on the walk. There are so many bunnies in the neighborhood. And then there's the. There's the six that. That Izzy killed earlier this year.

[A]

Well, if they're there, the nature will take care of it too, but I don't want. These will show up. The Hawks will show.

[B]

I don't want that rotting, though, in the window. Well, I got. I got to get them out.

[A]

All right, well, fish them out, so.

[B]

All right. I thought maybe. You want to come over and keep them?

[A]

No, like, eat them. Yeah, I do, like, freeze them for you. No, I don't want to get, like, tularemia or something. I'd rather not.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

It wasn't on my. On my card.

[B]

All right, well, you know what? It's time. It's time for the top 10 Vikings of all. So here on Dan Burns in Unfiltered on Fridays, we present to you as the Chicago Bears are heading into a game this weekend in Minnesota against the Minnesota Vikings. We have for you on DBU the top 10 Vikings of all time.

[A]

From 1973 through 76, Fran Tarkenton quarterbacked Grant's Vikings to three more Super Bowls on his way to the Pro Football hall of Fame. A trio of players for Minnesota's famed Purple People Eaters defense also distinguished themselves as future hall of Famers, and no opponent looked forward to a postseason game in Minneapolis.

[B]

So with that in mind, as we present to you the top 10 Vikings of all time. What? What's wrong? You don't like the NFL Films opens? I like it.

[A]

I do.

[B]

It gets me really excited because we're doing a public service here for our.

[A]

Friends with the top 10 Vikings.

[B]

You can use this then for knowledge and information when you talk Bears Vikings with your friends. So the committee gave me their list this morning. We have two honorable mentions and then the top 10 Vikings of all time. According to the DBU committee, the first honorable mention is Thor. While Thor is not a Viking, Thor played a prominent role in Norse mythology as the God of thunder. He impacted the culture and beliefs of the Vikings. His Marvel character portrayed by Chris Hemsworth, has skyrocketed the modern day cultural popularity. If you're into stuff like that, like big muscles and rugged, handsome good looks, those dreamy blue eyes, his Australian accent that sounds like the voice of an angel. Anyway, Thor gets an honorable mention.

[A]

Not that you're editorialized.

[B]

No, not at all. It's just from the committee. The committee put it on.

[A]

Ah, they love him. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So Thor gets a mention. Beowulf also gets an honorable mention.

[A]

Beowulf, my number nine.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

And because technically not a Viking, I will save my Beowulf thoughts.

[B]

Okay, so Beowulf honorable mention for the committee is an epic poem that is considered the highest achievement of old English literature. It tells the story of a heroic warrior named Beowulf. While it is set prior to the Viking Age, it is significant for understanding the historical and cultural context of the time. The poem is set in pagan Scandinavia with its references to the Geats. Not Ed Gein, but the Geats.

[A]

I had this written down as well. I did not know that the Geats are the Goths. Yes, that the Goths were also known as the Geats.

[B]

The Geats, yeah. And so it provides insight into the Viking world, which is why Beowulf gets an honorable mention. All right, and that was your number nine.

[A]

Number nine.

[B]

Okay, number ten. Here we have the top ten Vikings of all time, according to the DBU committee. Number ten, the Vikings. The 1958 epic historical fiction swashbuckling film. It proved a major box office success and spawned the television series Tales of the Vikings. The film starred Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Lee James Donald, Alexander Knox, and was narrated by Orson Welles.

[A]

Damn.

[B]

Therefore, it makes number 10 on the list. Number nine, Leif Erikson, also known as Leif the Lucky, was a Norse explorer who is thought to have been the first European to set foot on continental America approximately half a millennium before Christopher Columbus. For that recognition alone, he makes the list at number nine on the top 10 Vikings of all time. Number eight, Erik Thordvaldson, known as Erik the Red.

[A]

I think we did him, didn't we?

[B]

We did, but the committee didn't and they wanted to recognize him again.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Erik the Red was a Norse explorer described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland. Eric most likely earned the epitaph the Red due to the color of his hair and beard. Thank you. Also why I wanted to do it again. Number eight, Eric the Red.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

All right, number seven stops, throws, completes it to Kilmer up at the 30 yard line. Kilmer driving for the first down lows as a punch ball. It's picked up by Jim Marshall who's running the wrong way. Marshall is running the wrong way and.

[A]

He'S running it into the end zone.

[B]

The Runway.

[A]

Thinks he scored a touchdown, he had scored a safety.

[B]

His teammates were running along the far.

[A]

Side of the field.

[B]

Russ trying to tell him go back. All right, number seven on the top 10 Vikings of all time, Jim Marshall.

[A]

Great player, defensive end, known for one.

[B]

Real bad day, one real bad day, one real bad play. Enjoyed a 20 year NFL career primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He recovered an NFL career record 29 opponents fumbles. He also holds the league mark for the most consecutive starts, 270. And the most games played, 282 by a defensive player. The Vikings retired his number 70. He was inducted into the Vikings ring of honor in 1964. He recovered a fumble, returned at 66 yards in the wrong direction in the Vikings end zone, where he threw the ball out of bounds, resulting in a safety for the 49ers. You've seen that play, I'm sure the wrong way player.

[A]

Yeah, of course. It was always in every, like, football follies. The football players do the silliest things.

[B]

Do you remember the 49er player? I'm not going to ask you who it was, but there was A Immediately, a 49er player runs up to him in the end zone and, like, puts his hands on his shoulders and says something to him. I'm always waiting for, like, Jim Marshall to just haul off and hit the guy. Like, what could you possibly say to your opponent?

[A]

Thank you?

[B]

Moment.

[A]

You say, thank you.

[B]

Oh, my God. I like, could you imagine that today?

[A]

Well, today it would. It would be a gambling scandal.

[B]

A gambling scandal. But imagine a player doing that, and the. One of the. One of the guys on the other.

[A]

Team runs up to him, probably said, jim, thanks, buddy.

[B]

Oh, I just. I love it.

[A]

Thank you, Jim.

[B]

Jim Marshall makes the list at number seven. All right, number six, Dan.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Viking appliances.

[A]

It's my number two. Wow. With a specific story. Okay.

[B]

So, yes, I was wondering if it would make your list.

[A]

Viking range. Mine is just Viking range.

[B]

All right. Leading is exactly what Viking has been doing for almost 40 years. They originated the professional grade range for home kitchen. Their industry leading innovations in appliances set the American standard for the modern luxury kitchen. From cooking and ventilation to refrigeration and cleanup, Viking delivers professional performances and stunning design. Simply stated, their products have become the standard for both elite chefs and discriminating designers alike. So whenever I'm watching a show, whether it's a home decorating show or some reality show and I see a Viking range, I'm always like, oh. Or if I'm looking at houses and we're looking online at a house that's for sale, and if I go through the kitchen and see a Viking range, I'm always like, ooh, that's pretty. It's really nice. So number six, Viking appliances. Number five, Ragnar Lothbrok. A legendary figure from Norse mythology. Often depicted as a Viking warrior and king, he's known for his many raids against the British Isles and is said to have fathered several famous Vikings, including Ivar the Boneless and Bjorn Ironside. Ivar the Boneless might need some rougiette. He is said to have been executed.

[A]

Hey, Ivar. What?

[B]

Try this. Slip it under your tongue.

[A]

Hey, Ivar the Boneful.

[B]

Yep. See? Very good. He's said to have been executed by being thrown into a pit of snakes when he was defeated by King Aella of Northumbria. Number five in the list. Ragnar Lothbrok. Number four.

[A]

Number four.

[B]

Viking Cruise Lines cruise line. Providing river, ocean and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters in Switzerland. Marketing headquarters in la. The company has three divisions. Viking River Cruises. Viking Ocean Cruises. Viking Expeditions. Offering cruises along the rivers and oceans of north and South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, Great Lakes, Europe, Russia, Egypt, China and Southeast Asia. The company was established by Torstenia Torsten Hagen in St. Petersburg, Russia, as Viking river cruises in 1997. Number four, Viking Cruise Lines.

[A]

Is that the cruise that we took was a Viking cruise?

[B]

Absolutely. And I would do it again and again and again and again. It was that fantastic.

[A]

That would make you an actual Viking at that point?

[B]

I would hope so.

[A]

If you do it enough.

[B]

Yep. Matt the Red. I'd have to just dye my Matt the gray. Oh, yeah. Ooh. Matt the Balding.

[A]

Never.

[B]

All right. Number three on our top ten Vikings for the committee. The Northman is a 2022American epic period action drama directed by Robert Eggers, based on the legend of Amleth of Gesta Doranum by Saxo Grammaticus.

[A]

My guess is all of that was just brutally mispronounced.

[B]

It wasn't. It wasn't. Because I went through it and I did it online.

[A]

Phonetically.

[B]

Yeah, because I knew that you were gonna be a smart ass about it, so I knew I wanted to do it. Yeah, I practiced it and I rolled right through it.

[A]

Babble and Duolingo.

[B]

You just. You Google, like, you put the name in, then you Google the pronunciation. Yeah.

[A]

Jerk. Wrong pronunciation, dot com.

[B]

Okay, whatever. Whatever. Why don't you read your list of Italian pastas again? Not making it back into the country, Bonehead. You're a real jerk face.

[A]

Yep.

[B]

The film follows Amleth, an exiled Viking prince who sets out on a quest to avenge the murder of his father at the hands of his uncle. That's the height of the Viking age. It features an ensemble cast of Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Klaas Bang, Anya Taylor, Joy, Gustav Lind, Ethan Hawke, Bjork and Willem Dafoe. Got a 90% on rotten tomatoes. So the Northman, number three. Number two. Dan, are you ready for number two.

[A]

I'm so ready.

[B]

Victory Tarvold from the fictional series Viking Quest.

[A]

Tarvold.

[B]

Yep. On the TV series Entourage.

[A]

It is.

[B]

Referred to both by fictional characters and celebrities playing versions of themselves as the real show. Within the show's fictional universe, Viking Quest is presented as a cult science fiction and fantasy show. The show's relative lack of success and critical reception next to its fictional spin off, Angel Quest is a play on the same dynamic between the real life show Hercules the Legendary Journeys and Zeno Warrior Princess. The show featured Johnny Drama Chase as the lead character, Tarvold. Tarvold has an exclamation signature of Victory, and he hails from the country of Northumbria. So number two, Tarvold, the fictional Viking from Entourage and the number one Viking of all time, Hagar the Horrible.

[A]

My number four.

[B]

The title and main character of an American comic strip created by cartoonist Dick Brown, syndicated by King Features Syndicate. It first appeared on February 4, 1973 in the Sunday papers. And the next day.

[A]

That old, Like I, I, I kind of thought about it. I thought it was one of these and I got it confused.

[B]

Like with the 20s or 30s.

[A]

No, not that long ago. But I didn't think it was like my sister's age. Sorry, Jill.

[B]

Ooh. Well, my age.

[A]

52.

[B]

It was in the Sunday papers. It came out the next day in the daily papers. Was an immediate success. Following Brown's retirement in 1988, his son, Chris Brown, not the R and B singer but a different guy, continued the Strip until 2017 when he retired. The artwork was by Gary Hallgren and gets the number one spot on the committee's top 10 Vikings of all time. Hagar the Horrible.

[A]

All right, this was the list that I put together. This is my second go around. Of the top 10 Vikings of all time. Number 10, the Viking Award. The Viking Award. Okay, that is a now defunct award that had been given to the best Swedish hockey player in North America. And it was given all the way up to the 2018, 2019 season when Elias Lindholm of the Calgary Flames was the winner. And then it just says in 20 and in 21. No prize was awarded due to the impact on the NHL of the COVID 19 pandemic. And that's it. And that was the end of it. The award started in 1976 when Bjorge Salming won it for consecutive years. Then Ulf Nilsson and Salming and Anders Hedberg, Kent Nilsen and some very familiar names through the 80s in Pellenberg and Mats Nasland and One of my favorite names, Haken Loub. Remember Haken Loub? Also the Calgary Flames right winger Haken Loeb, Matt Sundin, and various Forsber and Renbergs and Lidstroms and Naslins, Zetterberg, Backstrom, Sedine Carlson. And now, alas, the Viking Award is no more.

[B]

Well, probably because it's not very inclusive. Yeah, I don't know.

[A]

Number nine. Beowulf. Beowulf. And as you mentioned, not technically a Viking, but influential in Viking lore. And he was. I did not know that he was considered a Geat. A Geet. G E A T. Yep.

[B]

G E A T. One of the Germanic tribes of Geatland.

[A]

And they were also known as the Goths. So if you get a kid.

[B]

Not the Goths.

[A]

No, but the Goths. If there's a kid at school who's like a Goth kid, could you just say, hey, quit being such a Geet. He's a Geet. Why are you a Geet?

[B]

Or I wouldn't say that. Just go up and compliment their Geet outfit.

[A]

Yes, you are. I appreciate the fact that you have. Well, the Goths don't dress like actual Goths. It's more like Susie and the Banshees.

[B]

Yeah, they don't dress like pure.

[A]

No, no, they don't. That would be cool if there is a subset of modern goths, like Vikings, instead of just sort of dark with their hair, like half the emo look that they actually do. Cosplay. Actual Goths. Number eight. And this is completely arbitrary. I decided Viggo Mortensen is a Viking.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I just did. All right. He probably is somehow. And he's just handsome and kind of awesome and big fan of Vigo.

[B]

Also, I am too, meeting with Pope Bob.

[A]

Vigo is. Yes. Yeah, he is meeting with Bob. And I just decided he's a Viking. And I put him on the list because I think he's cool because his.

[B]

Name sounds like Viking. If you.

[A]

Oh, totally. If there isn't an actual Viking that was named Viggo Mortensen, they were doing it wrong because his dad was Viggo Mortensen.

[B]

Yeah, he's Danish.

[A]

I know. Yeah, Danish American. He was born in New York, I think, but he's lived all over the world and I just like him. Number seven is Elmer Fudd in the 1957 famous Chuck Jones cartoon, what's Opera Doc? 1957 Warner Bros. Merry Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones, written by Michael Maltese. It is maybe the most awarded most famous and most ambitious of the Mary Melody's Chuck Jones cartoons. And it has won all kinds of awards. The Library of Congress has selected it for preservation on the National Film Registry. And of course it is based on Wagnerian opera, particularly the Ring cycle. And Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny at various times are taking on the roles of the demigod, Siegfried and Brunhilde. You know Brunhilde, of course, the fat lady sings with the big giant blonde Germanic looking woman with the braided hair, often having the Viking helmet. But it's Elmer Fudd who makes reference spear and magic helmet. And that is he, he sporting the Viking helmet. Elmer Fudd in what's opera, Doc is number seven, Number six, Vikings safety Todd Scott. Who's Todd Scott? Well, those of us of a certain age remember what happened on October 4th of 1992. The Bears were playing the Vikings and it was a critical year for the Bears, who at the time were 2 and 2. And there, there was a question as to the staying power of the Ditka era and the aging defense and everything that had been held together and now turned over to Jim Harbaugh. I had to. And of course, when I go back and I find what was written on that day, there's the column from Patrick Royce, who of course is our buddy at our sister pod network Score north up in Minneapolis. And you've. You know Patrick, Patrick Ricey, you know him, you heard him before.

[B]

Long time guy.

[A]

And he's still, he's still doing what he's doing. Yep. And it's, it's his story that says Chicago was leading 13 to nothing with accurate passing from Harbaugh, strong running from Neil Anderson and fierce defense. That lead was 20 to nothing when Jim Harbaugh led a 16 play 91 yard drive that devoured the opening 10:27 of the second half. The Bears were not giving the Vikings a breath of life on that afternoon. Mike Ditka's tough guys from a tough guy town had gone 90 and 37 over the previous eight seasons with seven playoff appearances, six division titles and a Super bowl victory. And now the Bears were saying not so fast to the critics insisting the mighty defense had gotten too old and that Harbaugh remained a mediocre excuse for a quarterback. In his third season as the Bears starter, the Vikings had punted again after that touchdown. Chicago had a first down at its 33 early in the fourth. The play was to send four receivers deep, put the ball in the Vikings side of the field and continue the exit of the purple fans toward the dome's revolving doors. Jim Harbaugh went to the line, determined the Vikings secondary was playing soft and called 80 audible. This made Neil Anderson the primary receiver for a short pass. Anderson said, I didn't hear it. The running back was caught by surprise when the pass came his way, stumbled, and Viking safety Todd Scott intercepted it and took it 35 yards for a touchdown. You remember what happened next?

[B]

I don't.

[A]

You don't?

[B]

No.

[A]

When Harbaugh came to the sideline, Ditka grabbed his face mask and went into a sideline meltdown. Oh, okay. Post game, Ditka said Harbaugh had been told not to audible because of the noise factor in the Metrodome. Harbaugh said his rationale was, quote. He said, don't call an audible if the noise is too loud. He left it up to me to determine at that point. I didn't think it was too loud. Harbaugh was right. By then, one third of the crowd had left. Ditka was also right. Scott's interception changed the game. The Vikings rallied for a 21 to 20 victory. Green's Vikings. Dennis Green on the way up. Ditka's Bears on the way out of contention. After the game, Ditka said, sometimes we're just too smart for our own selves. When there's a player who knows more than a coach, you've got a problem. If this happens again, there will be definite changes. We're not going to put 47 guys careers in jeopardy for one guy. Wow. And he was right.

[B]

Yeah. I do remember that now. I didn't remember that was the play.

[A]

But Bears finished 5 and 11 and Ditka was fired.

[B]

Yeah. And the Bears are who they thought they were.

[A]

Different game. Yeah. Different teams, same guy. But the guy that picked off that pass and changed the course of Bears history was Todd Scott. Number six. Number five. And I'm so glad I found him. Andy the Viking Fordham. Andy the Viking Fordham was a great English professional darts player. He competed in British Darts Organization tournaments. The bdo. That's. That's their major leagues. He was nicknamed the Viking. He won the 2004 BDO World Darts Championship. He died at age 59. And when you look at him, you will not be surprised that he died young. He is one of the strangest shaped human beings you could possibly imagine. He had all sorts of medical issues while playing darts. He would have shortness of breath. He has been removed by medical staff from darts events for having problems breathing, et cetera. He was a massive, massive drinker.

[B]

Okay. Yeah, he's a big boy. I was wondering what issues he had.

[A]

He had every kind of issue. Basically, he drank his liver out of his body and everything started to cascade on him. When it went south, it went south and he was dead. But his sense of humor allowed him. He had walkout music. I guess all the great dart players have walkout music. Guess what his was. What was it Wright said? Fred's. I'm too sexy.

[B]

Oh, nice.

[A]

So that was Andy the Viking Fordham checking in at number five. My number four was Hagar the Horrible. Okay. Or the Horrible, as my wife would say. Horrible. The Hagar the Horrible. And he's important. The comic strip is actually important to crossword puzzle nerds because of the name of his dog. Do you know the name of Hagar's.

[B]

Haha. I don't remember. What was it?

[A]

Snert.

[B]

Snert, that's right. I wanted to say Gert.

[A]

It's Snert. S N E R T. Snert is Hagar and Helga Horrible's dog. And a frequent. For a time, not anymore. It was a frequent. Crossword answer. Number three is the protagonist of Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

You know that song?

[B]

Yep.

[A]

And.

[B]

Sounds just like that.

[A]

The song was written during their tour of Iceland.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

In the summer of 1970, they opened in Reykjavik. And Robert Plant, who, by the way, was in the lobby yesterday.

[B]

Yeah. Of our building here.

[A]

Yeah. He was standing. Right.

[B]

He was at Just Salads.

[A]

He was at Just Salads.

[B]

Robert Plant.

[A]

Because they said if your last name is Plant, you get a free salad at Just Salads.

[B]

So he was there.

[A]

He wasn't gonna waste that opportunity. Right, Right. So he. Yeah, but he was. He was here yesterday, and he said that we did come from the land of the ice and snow. We were guests of the Icelandic government on a cultural mission, invited to play a concert in Reykjavik. So. Okay, whatever. But I will say this, that when you actually read the lyrics, the Viking protagonist is kind of basic. He's just a kind of a basic Viking. We come from the land of the ice and snow from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow the hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands to fight the horde singing and crying, Valhalla, I am coming on we sweep with threshing ore Our only goal will be the western shore how soft your fields so green can whisper tales of gore of how we calmed the tides of war we are your overlords on we sweep with threshing Oregon Our only goal will be the western shore so now you'd better stop and rebuild All Your ruins for peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

[B]

Hmm, interesting.

[A]

Yeah, not really. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Kind of basic, kind of just basic Viking stuff. But that is number three, the protagonist of Immigrant Song. Number two, my Viking range.

[B]

Oh, your Viking range.

[A]

Okay. My Viking range.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

When we built the house 22 years ago, when we. When. When I came home from a fishing trip and Beth had prepared a presentation for me, she waited for me to go to Canada for five days. And we were living in a condo on Lincoln Avenue, right near Elbow Room, Lincoln and George. And she said, hey, we got to buy this house. And I said I. Because she knew that it was scary and it was a big deal and it was like, like adult stuff. And I. So she waited for me to go on the fishing trip and she put this presentation together and she said, here's why we have to buy this house. I think Zoe was 2. We wanted to have another child. She showed me where the market trends were, what the prices were. The school district in which this house would be should look, it's on the other side of Western, but technically it's still North Center Roscoe Village. We are going to be in the Bell school district for K through 8, blah, blah, blah. You can send your kids to Bell, you can send your kids to Blaine. It's before that, before CPS had really improved, there weren't that many really trustworthy public schools. And she said, look, it's either go to the suburbs or it's get this house. Well, that's an easy one. And we went and we looked at it and I took one look, we put our earnest money down and said, this is it. So then it comes down to making your choices. And the builders had enlisted apartment, as all the builders do, and say, here's your menu of stuff and here's what everything costs. And you get in this trap of like, oh, well, over a more. Over a 30 year mortgage. It's just extra this a month. And then by the time you get done and you look at the total, you go, holy shit, what do we do? But the one thing, the one thing I said, no matter what I have to have is a Viking Range. I said, we'll do whatever, any. I'm not a stickler. You pick out the granite you want. Pick out where the cabinets. The only thing I'm going to have an opinion about, I got to have a Viking range.

[B]

Yeah, it's good stuff.

[A]

So I've got the 30 inch. I didn't need the burners, because I asked around, they said, no, no, you'll never use it. It's too big. Whatever. I get the regular 30 inch standard Viking range. And I said, with the Viking hood on there, I want the big ass blower that's vented directly outside.

[B]

Wait, so how many burners?

[A]

There's four burners. Four.

[B]

So you didn't want the.

[A]

No, I didn't want the big giant thing. I don't need it. And we got a second oven that's in the island for like entertaining, like if we're gonna have people over and we need like a warming oven or a second oven. So that's, that's the, that's a basic electric oven that we just have in the, in the, in the island. But this was my baby. This was my thing because I wanted these big fucking burners, you know, 14,000 BTUs, restaurant heat. And the blower can handle anything. And it's still great. But I will say this, and let me ask this. Anybody else who has a Viking range, there's ghosts in the igniters where you'll light a burner and then another burner will try to light sometimes, or you'll light a burner and it won't go on, and then a different burner will go on, or it'll just tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And they'll all go on and you're just like, well, wait, what's going on?

[B]

Are they cleaned?

[A]

They're often every couple of weeks, like full clean. And sometimes water gets in. But I've heard this before, that Viking burners have, have this kind of thing that just happens to them, but you never know. And I taught the kids, look, just, I don't want gas getting out. So if it happens, burners flip the fan on. And it's just something you deal with because you got the one. The bottom right burner is the super powerful one that like boil a pot of pasta water in a minute and a half. It's awesome, but I love it. My Viking range number two, the number one Viking second time through is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock iii, the son of the eventually proud Stoic the Vast, the protagonist of how to Train youn Dragon. The original how to Train youn Dragon, not the remade live action one. I love that movie. I love, love, love the original. I love Jay Baruchel's voice characterization, Hiccup of the way his father played by. What's the guy's name, the big Scotsman that plays Stoic the vast Gerard Butler Hiccup. And young, difficult, moody, nerdy Hiccup is my guy. I remember seeing that movie for the first time and leaving that movie. Like, was that movie really great or is it just me? Because they wanted to take the kids and all the kids loved it, but I knew it was really good.

[B]

Yeah, we never watched it. And then wasn't there, like a live one that just came out?

[A]

You've never seen the original how to Train youn Dragon?

[B]

Yeah, I don't. I don't. I can't recall that.

[A]

I have. Oh, it's so good. It's so good. And if it. If I'm flipping channels and it's on, I'll watch it.

[B]

Remember, we just. We just talked about this before the show. My guys were never movie guys.

[A]

Right.

[B]

Like, they always. They always bailed. So it wasn't until later where my stepsons will watch an entire movie. Like, they've always been really good at movies where my guys wasn't for the last couple years.

[A]

So whether or not it's With. Whether it's not just for yourself.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The 2010 original how to Train Animated. It's great.

[B]

I'll watch it.

[A]

It's great.

[B]

I'll do it.

[A]

Timeless. I'll do that.

[B]

You do Ed Gein Monster. We're good.

[A]

Geen. Yeah, it's got that Jerry Angelo sound too, doesn't it?

[B]

I don't do that to my guy, Jerry.

[A]

Oh, I don't know. Your number one Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third, Son of Stoic the Vast.

[B]

All right. Love it. So that's top 10 Vikings of all time.

[A]

There it is.

[B]

You can use this information now for the game on Sunday to impress your friends and family co workers on Monday, after the game is over, you're sitting at the water cooler and you're having small talk about the weekend.

[A]

Let me tell you something. What I learned. Beowulf is a geek. This is somebody slowly backing away from you. Okay.

[B]

Right.

[A]

Yeah, I got that. That thing.

[B]

My Viking range here, 48 inch wide. It's the eight burner double oven. That's the one I want. 21 grand. Yeah.

[A]

I was gonna say, that's a big ticket there.

[B]

That's my guy right there.

[A]

I got the regular 30 inch.

[B]

Yeah. And yours is probably stainless steel.

[A]

Yeah, Yeah.

[B]

I want to do a color.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. When we. We do. When we. When we eventually build a place, it'll be. That'll be. A Viking range will be the only thing.

[A]

Get like a la Cornue. Or something.

[B]

Oh, no, I'm gonna do, like. I'm gonna have. Have, like, a whole pizza oven from Italy flown over as well and put that in the backyard.

[A]

I know somebody who did that. I know someone who actually has one of those. And the only reason I knew was he's like, hey, we're gonna do pizza for lunch. It was seven in the morning. He's like, honey, honey, can you turn the pizza oven on?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, dude, I don't want pizza. He goes, no, no, no. It takes three hours to get to the proper heat. Like, how often do you use it? He's like, I know. It's kind of a pain in the ass.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You're so excited about getting. They have to heat it up three hours ahead of time just to get it to the right condition.

[B]

Yeah, My. My cousin, her husband, that's what he does for a living in his construction. They do that in backyards for people. They build the things so he can't.

[A]

Throw you a bone and just kind of do it for you. Come on over. One falls off the truck.

[B]

Oh, God. That was my dad. My father's days. And we needed some of the house, you know, he was a teamster, and a week or two later, it'd be like, yeah, I was just driving and fell off the truck. Like, oh, need new banquet tables. Got them. So. Need a new chandelier. Got it.

[A]

There's a. There's a whole rack full of dresses just down that alley. Yeah, they're new. No, go, go.

[B]

No, that was a head down that alley. Rack of fur coats.

[A]

Yeah, go check them out. They just came in. No, no, no. A little further. A little further. Don't drive away. Where you going?

[B]

All right, here. Let me see if this. Let me see if this works.

[A]

What now? What are you doing?

[B]

I don't know if it'll work.

[A]

If what'll work?

[B]

It's your guy.

[A]

What's Opera Document.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

What do you expect from opera? A happy ending.

[B]

Good catch. Yeah, There's a couple good catches there for you. I like that.

[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

It's a lineman's helmet.

[B]

Yeah. Won't keep him out of the game, but I think it's going to impact what they can do. J.J. mcCarthy under 219 and a half. Caleb Williams passing touchdowns. The over under is one and a half. We're going over. So all he needs is like 11 3/4 passing touchdowns and we're winners.

[A]

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[B]

Do you think Caleb can get like 1¾ touchdown passes? Think you can do that?

[A]

All you need?

[B]

Yeah, it's all you need, right?

[A]

Yeah. You don't, you don't really need two if it's just over one and a half, right?

[B]

Okay. All right. Yeah, I was a little nervous about.

[A]

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[B]

All right, I think I'll do that. Thank you for that suggestion.

[A]

I like that plan.

[B]

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