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to save Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 Sports Friday DBU on 312. Welcome to it. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie and also today by our friends, our dear friend Russ at Chicago Window. Guys, it's Friday Feedback Friday and we have a ton of stuff to do. We also have our Friday top 10 list for you. But first and foremost, I just want to thank Ryan Polls for doing exactly what we wanted him to do and he explained exactly what his job is and why he does such things. But what did we say? Make the call, can't hurt, could help. No reason not to make the call. And as you always say about Ryan Polls that he tends to be honest. He tends to tell you it doesn't really help or hurt the Bears to say yes that he checked in. In fact, he did. He said, we're always gonna monitor every situation. Sometimes it fits and it works with what you got going on in terms of resources. Sometimes it doesn't. We were involved. We checked into it. We looked to see if it made sense, had some dialogue, but I'll just leave it at that. Cool. Like this isn't one of these things after the fact when somebody signs big money and then an embarrassed team like the White Sox would hustle out and say, oh, we made an offer, we were close, we had an incentive later offer and he could have picked us, but he made a mistake and he took more money to go somewhere else. But our offer was better and our owners really stepped up and all that stuff. He didn't say that. He just said constantly looking short term, long term, what's going to help this football team now? And also being conscious of what's going to happen down the road. We want to sustain success. We have to be very calculated with the moves we make. When we were looking into different situations, we took that into account and we felt like sticking with our plan. Going into free agency was the best thing for us. Great.
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Yeah. All good. All good. And we'll. We'll dive more into. Into the Bears on forward progress today as well.
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Yes, there's comings and goings and all kinds of things. Some official unveilings of some of the free agent signings that we knew were happening, but some first words officially as a Bear, have been spoken. So we are going to get to all of that. I also want to congratulate our 312-day-1 winners. And I realized that I read this wrong because I thought that we had three packages that one was a pair of tickets and two were 312 sports swag.
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I thought it was all three winners get all the items.
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I didn't know that.
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Okay, so that's what I thought it was. And then I thought, well, maybe I just misread it. I'm sure Dr. Radio is correct, so I let you go with it.
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That's Dr. Podcast to you, Mr. Radio Man.
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So you were wrong.
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I knew I was wrong now. Yeah.
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Okay, so everybody got everything.
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Everybody got everything. So which bottom line, congratulations to Eddie from Vernon Hills, who got the swag and Saturday Cubs tickets. Eric from Aurora got swag and Saturday Cubs tickets. And Peter from Hoffman Estates got the swag and Sunday Cubs tickets.
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All right, well, that's good. Now let me.
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Yes.
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Let me apologize officially to the suits here in the building then, because I was like, give out. Give out tickets to all three winners, you chat bastards. I was like, come on, man.
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Was written the way it was written. It wasn't because it said three and one and two, three winners. And that. And now I realize, because I'm, you know, Mr.
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Idiot. Yeah.
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Mr. Genius here, that they said they formatted it the way they did because it was three winners get one pair of tickets and two pieces. So it's 31 2.
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That's what I thought. So then all three winners get to bring a buddy to the game because they get a pair of tickets and they both can wear swag because they both get swag.
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Correct.
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All right, that's what I thought it was. And I'm like, well, maybe I just
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missed it finally has penetrated my extremely thick skull. And while we're on that, very quickly, I want to announce what we're doing on Monday.
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Yes.
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This is fun. This is really cool. Selection Sunday for the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament is this Sunday.
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Yep. It's in two days.
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So when we come in on Monday, you are going to have your chance to participate in the inaugural 312 Sports Busted Bracket Challenge. And say, well, why would I do that? Well, because it's fun and because we have prizes for you. The first place winner of our busted bracket challenge gets a $250 gift card to Giordano's and an official Wilson Evo NXT NCAA March Madness game ball.
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Nice.
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The actual basketball that is being used in this NCAA tournament, thanks to our friends at Wilson.
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That's cool. And one. There's one of those.
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This I got. Okay, don't doubt me on this one. All right, this I got. So you get the $250 gift card of Giordano's and a Wilson Official NCAA March Madness game ball. Second place and third place each get a $100 gift card to Giordano's.
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Okay.
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That's a big party, Giordano.
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You sure you got it right?
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I'm sure I got it right. So this is brought to you by Giordano's. Your bracket may bust your Giordano's pizza shouldn't get your watch party lineup delivered for pickup@giordano's.com gameday and by my bookie bet on anything, anywhere, anytime.
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All right, one other housekeeping note to clear up as well, too. Some people have let us know there have been issues with Forward Progress on Apple Podcast. So if, first of all, if you're not listening to Forward Progress and you're here on dbu, you're not doing both.
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Why you're missing out.
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Yeah, do both. If you like the Bears, get on Ford Progress, go to the YouTube channel, subscribe, get it on podcast if you have. If you've had any issues on Apple Podcasts, there's something to do with a recent update. All you need to do is go to your Apple podcast, your app, and just pull the screen down to refresh it. Because if the most recent shows aren't loading, that's the simple solution to it. So mine were loading. So people. People emailed and it's like, hey, they're not there. I'm like, well, yeah, they are. I checked my wife's phone and they weren't there. Pulled her screen down, did a simple little refresh on it, and they appeared right away. So if that's the issue you're having, go ahead and do that. Just refresh it real quick. So there was an issue on Apple's end. Not our end, but thanks for all the emails. And I will say for future things, if shows aren't loading or there's an issue on our end, I'll be the first person to realize that. Know it But I do appreciate y' all emailing and taking the time to be concerned about it. But try that simple refresh. If not the easiest thing to do, go to the 312 Sports app and listen to all the shows there. Everything is right there for you. Nice and easy, nice and simple. Go to the Apple App Store, get the app. Go to Google Play, get the app. You'll have it. No concerns. But if you're on Apple, which I listen to Apple, too, pull the screen down, refresh it. You should be good to go.
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There you go. And don't forget that Busted Bracket challenge, the inaugural 312Sports Busted Bracket Challenge. You'll be able to do that through the app and through the website starting on Monday before Friday Feedback Friday. A quick shout out to the best satirical publication in my lifetime. I believe there's. Well, there's National Lampoon, but there's, you know, Mad Magazine.
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It's the best.
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National Lampoon.
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It's the best.
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I think the Onion has surpassed all of them. Spy Magazine.
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And this is one of those headlines, dude, that when you sent it to me, it's one of those headlines where you go, fuck, why didn't I think of that? You know, it's one of those.
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You might have thought of it, but you might not have said it. But now, because the Onion did it, they kind of launder it for the rest of us because we were like.
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We danced around it a little bit. You know, it's like, put it out there.
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They had the guts to go do it.
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Of course they did.
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And by the way, the Onion is doing spectacularly. I believe their print edition now is a higher subscription base than the New York Times.
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Wow.
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The actual print edition of the Onion and in times like this, well, they're
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both fake news, Dan.
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Yeah, satire is hard to come by, but the truth in the satire, it's the truest news you're gonna find. So congrats to this headline. Based on what we were talking about yesterday and what we talked about, it was starting on Organizations win championships on Wednesday. You should check out that episode. It's a fun one. And I also learned the the term meat riders as we were talking about how weird Kobe fans are. It's a picture on the Onion. It's a picture of Bam Adebayo. And the headline reads as follows. An even worse helicopter crash.
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I said to you. It's brutally hysterical.
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Come on. Whoever in their writer's room, in their brainstorming room with their whiteboards, just slow clap, golf clap to whoever came up with that when Lakers fans furious as Bam Adebayo dies in even worse helicopter crash. Come on man. Like that's that. Is that you. You know your job, you got, you got one job man, and you just did it right there. Outstanding work by the Onion. Very, very well done. Easy to prepare comfort food full of protein. And right now with Omaha Steaks you can get 50% off. During their semi annual sale, Omaha Steaks has their exclusive lineup. USDA certified tender steaks, Gourmet burgers, all the versatile chicken, pork and seafood. Everything's delivered right to your door. And the going through that box and deciding what goes in the downstairs freezer and what is the upstairs freezer. Because I know I'm going to make it soon. Omaha Steaks is the choice of steakhouses and professional chefs around the world. This is a grass fed grain finished beef with more marbling for exceptional flavor. And the burgers that I use, they have some that are made from like brisket and short ribs. It's a family owned company, over 100 years of expertise in the meat industry. America's original butcher since 1917. Right now you can get 50% off the world's best everyday protein. Go to omahasteaks.com for 50% off site wide during this semi annual sale. And for an extra $35 off use the promo code Bernstein at checkout. That's just my last name. B E R N S T E I N welcome to big savings this week at grocery outlet, your extreme value headquarters right now, Sanderson Farms. Boneless skinless chicken breasts are only $1.99 per pound. And get one dozen large cage free eggs for only 99 cents. However you cook them up, you're saving big on fresh quality. Stock up on these family favorites today. These deals are only available until March 17 while supplies last selection varies by store. Seek weekly ad or in store for grade and size details. Grocery app March is here and college basketball is hot. It is time to get in on the action with my boogie. And also I think right now I believe as we record my Deerfield warriors are playing in the semifinals downstate. It's the farthest that Deerfield has gotten in my memory.
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Oh, are they really?
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Yeah. So congratulations to the Deerfield Warriors. We are the warriors and the warriors are great. Or as my friend and I used to say then and then by the transitive property that means we are great. And then people would throw things at us of course. So conference races are tightening in college basketball bubble. Teams are fighting for their lives. Every game matters. Every Possession's big. This is when things start to really get fun. Or scary. If you're Miami of Ohio. Oh, no. Oh, no. Redhawks. What happened?
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best, a play in game.
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What happened?
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A playing game. Period.
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Redhawks. No, no.
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You start playing NAIA teams consistently.
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Oh. All of that trash talking and MF ing the fans and all that UMass
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and Frank Martin said, Not on my court.
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No. So check out the prop board for these games. The player points, the team totals, the futures, the tournament odds. There's value everywhere, and there's opportunity in chaos. And these first two rounds and all the time leading up to it, chaos. So jump in to my bookie. Hello. Jump into my bookie at mybookie ag. One account, one wallet. Bet the spread live, bet the second half, Hit the casino between games. Everything is there. MyBookie AG Importantly, remember the code DBU for Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Your first bet's covered. Then up to 500 bucks. Which means if it doesn't hit, you've got the bet back. Bonus token. Run it back. Don't just watch the madness build hell. You got the code DBU at MyBookie AG. So make it all pay with my bookie. You are ready now, I presume, for Friday feedback? Friday, yes. Good. We should get an open, shouldn't we?
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Okay.
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Let's just put that on the list.
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Done.
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Now that I think about it, just a quick stinger or something. We can get some of that. Here is a response from Mike when we were talking about how the United states got its F15Es shot down by friendly fire.
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Yep.
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That's been one of the great successes so far of this effort. Oh, you know what else we have to get? By the way, I figured this out yesterday. I was talking to some people. You know what our government needs? Maps. See if you can hustle a map over there. Because apparently it is now official that they had no idea that this could cause the oil shock.
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Well, then you're assuming that they'd be
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able to read the map correctly, I think. Remember when Mike north did smokes for soldiers? Yes. And he, for some misguided reason, decided to raise money to send cigarettes to American soldiers.
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Yep.
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I don't quite know what that was, but we're gonna do something similar where at some point, we're gonna find. We're gonna raise money to buy a map, and we're gonna send the map to the Department of Defense. Okay.
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War.
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I'm gonna call it by the actual name.
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Department of War.
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Department of gwar. Now that if they Called it the Department.
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Now that would be a thing that
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we could support if it were the Department of Guar that I'm back in. But it is technically still the Department of Defense. So maps, just figure that out. Okay, so he says, I heard the Convo about an FA18 downing the F15Es over Kuwait. Now guys, the F A18E.F is roughly equivalent to the F15E. Both are iterations on an older platform, both of which around 50 years old. Kuwait has revamped their inventory a bit, so there's a decent chance it was the Super Hornet that was involved. It's acceptable to call the F15E and the F A18E F platforms old. We still use the F15E for the same reason that insurance companies still use mainframes from the 90s. It's the bird in hand when it comes to top of the line. The above do not qualify. That space is occupied by the F22s, F35 and still the venerable F16. The Air Force top of the line air superiority fighters. The F22 that was built with the goal of over the horizon air superiority. And I'd never heard of this. You know what that is? That is the capability of downing enemy aircraft before the F22 is even detected. So it's lopsidedly good, but ludicrously expensive. The F16, also a 50 year old design, but Lockheed is outfitting it with technology designed for the F22 to create the F16V and it cost peanuts compared to the F22. The F35 is the naval top of the line fighter and it's slowly replacing those F A 18s. Aside for you, Matt, the F14 Tomcat was a steaming pile of crap. The retractable wings and overall reliance on mechanical parts led to serious instability and maintenance nightmares. The spinning stall depicted in Top Gun was not made up for the sake of the movie.
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Wow.
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Yeah. That flat spin.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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Apparently can happen or could happen at the time. Another one referencing something you said. Matt, this is Brett said you yesterday brought up items to not be cheap on.
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Yeah. Q tips. Eggs and toilet paper. Yep.
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He said, let me add a couple.
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Okay.
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Growing up, my mom had to support three kids. We didn't have a lot of money. She had to shop at save a lot. So she bought cereal. It was always a knockoff brand instead of Captain Crunch Admiral Soggy. As an adult.
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Is that real? Okay.
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He says, as an adult I'll buy off brand cookies, peanut butter or cheese. I will never not buy name brand cereal. I Know the treat that is Fruity Pebbles. Also, she cheaped out on air conditioning, so I spend the money to keep my house cool in the summer. That's from Brett. Yeah, I get you. There are probably some differences there when it comes to. I've had the off brand, like puffed rice or something like that.
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Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Thanks to. For all the emails, sending in and even texts from people. The Gary from Evanston.
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Yes. The tribute, the collage that.
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Yeah. That people have sent that multiple times to me. So thank you. I listened to that again today.
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I did, too. I did, too.
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It's so great. That win, that final one about whoever the author was, about the Cartwright getting
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it wrong about the Cartwrights referencing their mothers because she called it Lorne Green syndrome. That shouldn't have existed.
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Angry and laughing at the same time.
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He was shaking. He was trembling while reading it. And we knew he was bringing it home, too. And the best line is Terry's like, oh, that's special right there.
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That was good. So thank you for sending that in.
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Yes, thank you. Here's John, who says, quick question related to. Would you go to a doctor who wears a cowboy hat?
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Okay.
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My answer was an easy no on that one.
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Oh, this is good.
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By the way, I got an email from Stonecutter who said, if you go to the doctor and he comes in wearing a cowboy hat, he said, brother, you're at the veterinarian. So this is the question from John, would you rather go to a doctor wearing a cowboy hat or a White Sox hat?
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Great question. And I would pick cowboy hat over that.
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And it's funny, as he was saying this, I was texting with one of my doctors who is a huge White Sox fan and was just texting me to bitch about the fact that he didn't think they spent enough money. So I absolutely. White Sox hat. I've got no problem with that. He's doing surgery, but, yeah, I think that's an easy one. The cowboy.
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Well, you're assuming a surgeon would be a White Sox fan.
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Yeah, it could be. Here is the new winner in the history of Friday feedback. Friday.
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All right, let me just guess. Is it from an email from Kevin? It's not.
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I've got that.
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Okay. Are you going to read that one?
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Yes.
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Okay. All right. I just want to make sure. Because I have that one up.
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Oh, yeah, of course. I've got that one.
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That one. Laugh out loud. That was good. Yeah.
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Yeah. Because he's. I like. Kevin's really funny when he doesn't sleep and he just feels like banging something out. But this is from Zabba Dabba Doo.
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Okay.
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And this is the record for the longest delay between something we said and something. The reaction coming in.
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Oh, okay, okay.
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And I love the. It says, hello, fitness friends when reading your list of top 10 all time Vikings, which is the very first top 10 list we did. It created the whole bit, remember?
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Yes. Yeah.
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You came across the legendary Gunnar Hamundarsson. Among his many accolades, Gunnar was said to be, quote, a truly formidable fighter whose jump could exceed his own height even when he was wearing full armor. Armor. Oh, yeah.
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Okay. Remember that?
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So remember we kept saying that there's no possible way. If he was 6ft tall, there's no way he could jump 6ft in the air wearing full armor. No way he could jump six feet in the air at all. So, guys, this is one of my favorite bits you two have ever done. However, there is something that's still bugging me about the conversation ever since. So dang it, I'm emailing you. I've thought about this a lot since that day, clearly. And I have come to the conclusion that this is in reference to his broad jump, not his high jump. Same thing. I did the exact same thing. Like. Oh, oh,
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wait, wait, wait a second. Wait. Why did we automatically assume it was his vertical jump?
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I don't know. And now I'm worried about all the other things that are out there that we said, and I'm just waiting for something like. Yeah, about that.
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Yeah, it makes more sense that it's his broad jump.
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Yeah, all it says is, but why
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did we assume vertical jump, though?
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Because it's funnier. I don't know, picturing a guy in 70 pounds of armor just. I mean, even.
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Even without.
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Right. But you can jump six feet in the air.
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God, you're so dumb.
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I'm dumb? You didn't stop me. All it says is a truly formidable fighter whose jump could exceed his own height even when he was wearing full armors. I. I don't know. I just.
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Wait a second. How is the only person to call us out on that?
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I don't know.
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All the rest of you are idiots.
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Yeah, maybe everybody else is stupid too. That's all I can do.
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Who is that from?
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Zabba Dabba Do.
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All right, well, the smartest guy on the show. Thanks for being here.
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I guess so.
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Oh, yep. That's really dumb. That's really stupid.
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It's. It's pretty.
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Like, why wouldn't we have thought, God, why don't it's really dumb. That's really, really dumb. Like, we've said a lot of dumb things.
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Yes, that's.
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That's pretty dumb.
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That's pretty dumb. That's up there. Remember that one? But, but, but it would be impressive, though.
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Oh, it would be very impressive. But wow. Think it.
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Cause you would not if, if you were squaring off against a guy in armor.
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A guy in armor, straight up, right?
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And like the first thing he does after the introductions, I don't even know if they did introductions back then, but, you know, the, the lights and they're playing all the music and then he's like, okay. And he looks at you, he just goes, boing.
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Yeah, I've dropped. I dropped the sword.
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And I'm good, right? Winner.
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That guy right there.
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I'm. Yes, that's Spider man over there. Not doing that.
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So broad jump. Yeah, probably right.
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I think that's probably correct.
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Good call. That's a great email.
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This is from Ethan Said, love the shows, listen every day. But that's not why I called.
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That's really dumb.
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And I saved this for a while because we were going to do a whole NFL rule segment, but we ended up not. It's still written on our board, but I thought, yeah, we can. He said, I've had an NFL rule change bouncing around in my head forever. I've never heard anyone propose it. Here's what nobody's talking about. Forgive me if you've heard this, but here it is on fourth down. Interceptions. I think the team on defense should be guaranteed the ball on the original line of scrimmage. I hate that the less athletic play, batting the ball down versus intercepting the ball gets rewarded no more. That interception was as good as a punt on fourth down. The rule reminds me of the existing rule on a punt that says if the kicking team touches the ball first without possessing it, the return team is guaranteed a possession of the ball even if they pick it up and end up fumbling. Let's incentivize defenders to try to make outstanding plays without costing their team field position. Does any of this make sense? Am I insane? I don't think that's insane.
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No, it's not insane.
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But I think what somebody would tell you is the opportunity you have when you make an interception down the field is you got the ball.
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Yeah.
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You can go score, right? You don't just get. There has to be a rule. Like if you. Then you would get into. If you make the effort to try to go score and you lose the ball. Like, you can fumble on that play. I think it's exciting no matter what to make that decision to have the live ball and if a team is trailing and they want field position, that guy can go get the field position back.
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Right.
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I understand the idea. Yeah.
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It's not insane, but yeah, I get it. By the way, Zabba Dabba Doo has been thinking about that for 27 weeks.
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More than half a year.
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It's 27 weeks since that happened.
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It's six months. He just decided, you know, I'm finally going to write this email. I'm finally going to do it.
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I still can't get over that.
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That's insane. Yep. Here is Patrick. He says, I love the restraint the Bears have shown in regards to free agency. Every year the salary cap goes up and teams a ton of money act like a 21 year old living with their parents with no bills and getting their tax return check. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to give Jason his tax refund. I just filed the kids taxes so he doesn't need another.
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Whatever.
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I'll put that in his bank account. He won't even know about it.
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He will. I'm pretty sure he listens. I'll text him.
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No, you're not going to text him. I'm just going to put it in his bank account. All right.
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I'll let him know.
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The moment that money comes that they have to go out and spend it on flashy stuff they don't need or they end up paying way too much because the money burns a hole in their pocket. But we can trust that Ben Johnson and Ryan polls when they haven't made a big splash that every fan wants. We trust what they're trying to do to keep this team competitive and relevant. We all wanted Ben Johnson. His philosophy, his approach in building a winner. We have to trust him that he's this competent coach and leader that Chicago's been waiting decades for. Yes, yes, strong agree on that one. It's another Patrick here, different guy who said you made the parallel with what the Bears are doing to what the Cubs do with pitchers where you have to be a consistently winning team in this league. And it's evident when you look at the left tackle situation. Everything can change in a moment when the right guy is made available by another team. And I think it's clear strategy at left tackle right now. Just take some flyers on low risk, high reward. Whether it's Wills Braxton Jones have a safe option that, you know, you might have to get through the couple of weeks of the season with if somebody doesn't establish themselves in the position and if there isn't a player I don't feel comfortable enough surviving with until and if Trapillo can come back, you're still flexible. You buy yourself time to see what happens around the league. Free agency's got waves. The draft is a reason for it. Somebody who might not be available at this moment could be made available via cut or trade after the draft or during training camp. There's no reason to lock into an expensive option unless you're absolutely certain the player's worth it and can fit in your current year and future year salary structure. It is a pragmatic approach, albeit at one of the most important in football. Yep, a celebration of pragmatism. It's usually not not not as fun as celebrating stupid spending, but I think you're right. All right, we'll close out Friday Feedback
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Friday Is this Kevin?
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This is Kevin. Okay, this is Kevin in Jefferson Park. This is good, gentlemen. Great week. I cannot sleep. Here are my thoughts. John Smoltz calls baseball like he's been court ordered to and I hate him. John Smoltz is the relative at every family dinner no one wants to sit next to. He doesn't know why everyone's laughing. He hates that they are. And you just know. Any minute now he's going to tell you the cure for asthma is beef tallow. Poor Joe Davis has to call every game like the last grandchild that will talk to the dour old bastard while everyone else is trying to figure out how to put the miserable coot spot at the table outside. John Smoltz strikes me as someone offended by the presence of pepper. I'm reasonably sure that calling one Dominican Republic game would result in John Smoltz trying to cut the power to the satellite uplink so as to protect American culture from such needless displays of vitality that may taint their precious bodily fluids. If you told me everything John Smoltz ate comes out of a tube, I would believe you.
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That's a good line.
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John Smoltz's favorite music is the color beige. Also, that's true. He actually does not like music.
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Right?
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He said that. Meanwhile, every Caribbean team has a 12 minute fireworks display to celebrate a sac fly and the Italians are chugging espresso while singing the Act 1 closer from Turando. For the next round, I hope Italy goes full tilt boogie on the cuisine front and commemorates each home run with tableside prepared Cacio Pepe. Hell swap the Gatorade with Chianti smoke with your mistress. Have a day. Anything to stave off the smoltz. Thank you for all you do for the great shows. I've been out of town for work since January and your show was a great touchstone for home base. Looking forward to your coverage of everyone's favorite new canadian football league team, the Saskatoon meat riders.
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Good stuff.
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Thank you, Kevin. Well done. Yes, I think insomnia fits your comedic
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sense of quite well. Definitely works.
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I am too.
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I haven't seen all the movies, but I don't.
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Do you have used you see all the nominated films every year been any years where you have?
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Yeah, there been years where I have but it was. I haven't before there was this many.
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Yeah, I haven't. I mean I went through and this is the 97th Academy Awards and I went through obviously. And yeah, there, there has been one year of like movie watching age that I've seen all the movies.
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I haven't Seen a lot of the winners.
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Yeah, I haven't.
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When I was looking at the list, so. So Maddie gave me the following for our top 10 list.
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Yep.
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Look at all the historical winners of Best Picture, starting with Wings and going all the way to Anora.
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Yep.
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And rank our top 10 favorite. Best pictures, Best picture winners. Best picture winners.
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Right. They had to be a winner, not nominees had to be a winner and obviously had to see the film. So it limited what we could do.
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And there's plenty I haven't seen and don't want to.
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There's plenty I'm never going to.
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Right, right. So I did this and I'm very curious how the committee figured some of this stuff out. And I'll tell you how I defined mine was just by what it has meant to me. The staying power. How immediately accessible images, lines, themes. Just something that a movie that has had an outsized presence. For me, it's how I'm defining favorites.
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And this is. This is what I did. So, yeah, obviously had to have seen the film. And then for. For me, it was going through the list and looking at. At the list of winners. Movies that I've seen more than one time. Want to go back and watch again. That's really where was struck because like, again, I've said this and this isn't a derogatory thing. It's just we. We view films differently. Like, I like to go. And I'm sure this is a little bit of a crossover. I like to go to a movie or see a movie and be transported to that movie where I don't think of anything outside of that window. Whether it's 90 minutes or three hours, I'm focusing on that movie. Like, I want to be entertained. And whether you make me laugh or you make me cry, you make me feel angry. Whatever it is, whatever emotion the movie brings out, I want to be locked into that for the entire time I'm watching. So that. That's what I look for. And I know you. You view it differently. And I wish I viewed it a
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little differently at times necessarily, sometimes.
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But I mean, but you. But you notice things in your. That I don't unless I watch a movie a second or third time. You know, it's just the way that we work differently there. I want to be entertained. I want to be taken away to that movie for that time period. That's why I love going to the theater. I love going. I just love being in a big cushy seat with movie theater popcorn and the movie starts or actually the Trailers start and I'm in from the trailers.
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That's the idea. That's why you pay for it. I just get lost to go do this. But what I want to say is this is not for. Mine is not objective ranking of quality of film.
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These are just pure entertainment. Movies that, again, I want to go back and watch again. I have watched again multiple times.
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And these. But these are not. It's not. I'm not saying this is that you should think one of these is better than another one. I'm saying for me, these are the ones that have. They've had out like an outsized presence in my life of going to the theater.
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All right. So I had. I narrowed my list down to about 30. Okay. That.
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That I.
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That I chose from. So I went through first and wrote down the ones that I was like, yep, seen it more than once, would see it again. And then I have some honorable mentions and then my top 10. So these are our top 10 favorite Academy Award winning best pictures.
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Okay.
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So here are my honorable mentions. This first one goes out in honor of my wife as well. It's called the Sound of Music. I'm not sure if you've seen it.
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I haven't. I know all the songs, but I've never seen.
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You've never seen a movie start to finish?
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No.
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Okay. It wasn't until last Christmas or the Christmas before was the first time I've ever seen it start to finish. I've never. I've never wanted to see it. I would. I would talk it.
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Yep.
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And I told you I'm sure it's good on Christmas Day. What we do is we. We watch movies and we swap who picks the movie.
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Okay.
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And they're movies that I want her to see the movies that she wants me to see. And so I can't remember if it was this, this recent Christmas or the one before where I watched the Sound of Music for the first time start to finish. And it's really good.
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I know. It is.
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It's really good. And I was mad that it was so good. And then I enjoyed it as much as I did.
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I know that the name Liesl L I E S L. Yeah. Finds its name into crossword puzzles a lot.
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A lot. So you're good there. So Sound of Music, it's an honorable mention. West side Story. Also an honorable mention. One that in my 30s, I sat down one day alone and said, you know what? I'm going to watch this. I mean, I figure I should watch it. It's. It's one of the greatest pictures ever made, what I've been told. Loved it, enjoyed it. So it gets an honorable mention.
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And Russ Tamblyn is awesome.
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It's really good. Yeah. This one goes out to my mom. The. I've watched this because of her. The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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Great movie.
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One of her favorite movies of all time. So, yes, give her a little nod. Million Dollar Baby. That's an honorable mention. It can't make my top 10, because I'll tell you this. I've only seen it one time, and I just. I've wanted to watch it again, and I just can't. It's really. It's a really. It's really difficult watch.
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Brutal.
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Yeah, it's really hard to watch. I've started it multiple times.
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What am I doing to myself?
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I can't do this. It's really tough. So honorable mention. Now, two other honorable mentions that are really. They were really close to getting into the top 10. American Beauty, which is just a great film. I. I really enjoyed it. I don't know. Did you not?
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I. I mean, I considered everything, and there's a, like, Million Dollar Baby. I liked it a lot. Yeah, American Beauty. I liked it a lot. Not on my list.
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Not in your list. Okay, so American Beauty gets a mention, and Platoon also gets an honorable mention for me.
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Also an honorable mention for me. Platoon.
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All right, here's my top 10. And again, we don't do these for the critical thinking or they're in it. These are just our opinions. Our favorite. Yep. Number 10 for me is Green Book.
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Wow. Okay.
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I love the movie Green Book. And Vito Morton, Vito Mortensen.
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The.
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The acting there, first of all.
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And you say Vito or Viggo? Viggo Vigo. Okay.
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Just the. The relationship that develops. I just. I love it. I love the whole story. It's one of the films I watched on our flight to Italy. I'm like, oh, it's available. I'm gonna watch that again. So Green book, it's number 10 for me. Number nine is a movie that I've seen over 20 times. Again, this is about the relationship that develops in the movie of two people that shouldn't be friends. And it's Driving Miss Daisy. Number nine, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd's characters, her son. It's just. It's a great film. I love the. The growth of their relationship. How it ends is just. It's a beautiful story. I loved all of it. Number eight, my guy, Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. Number Eight for me. Great film again. Watched it multiple times. Number seven. Just watched this one recently again, because it's been a while. Was no country for Old Men.
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That is my number seven as well.
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Beautiful. Great. Great show. Number six, Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven.
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That is my number six.
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Awesome. This is good. I wasn't sure. I thought. I thought we'd have one crossover for sure. There was only one. I didn't think we'd have what I think are three now. Okay, so Rain man, no country for Old Men. Unforgiven is six. Number five, the Departed.
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That was my wife's number one.
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Really?
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Because she and I did this last night.
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Okay. I thought that was correct, that it was her favorite movie, because it was on the other day on tv, and I almost texted you to say, hey, tell Beth she got it. Okay.
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She had it.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Yeah. And. And I like that movie. I'm not. It's so hard to keep up with who's working for whom and when.
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Oh, I don't think so. It is.
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It's just like, okay, so he's pretending to be this, and he's pretending to be that, and now he's working for it. I don't know. It just. It's good. It is Beth. Of this eligible list, it was her. Cause we sat and did it, the two of us, last night. And her list was wildly different from mine, but that was her number one.
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Her number one's the Departed. That's great.
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Yep.
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Number four for me is Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump. Do you like Forrest Gump?
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Against my better judgment, I didn't think
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you would like me.
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Watch it when it's on. I've seen it because it's on a lot, and there are parts of it. It's got really good staying power.
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Yeah. Oh, of course.
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But I think it's a hack. I think it's another Zemeckis hack music.
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I knew you would have crypto. Yeah.
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Just because it's, you know, it's Zemeckis.
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It's great. Dude, come on. It's great. It's a great story. Tom Hanks is great.
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I quote it plenty.
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Yeah.
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I sat on the bench in Savannah, where there's a big thing about the bench.
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Oh, really?
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Yes. I sat there, the whole thing, because I'm like, oh, wait, that looks familiar.
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Yeah.
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Like, you know, that's the Forrest Gump bench.
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And then the very end, when he, you know, he sees his kid and he's like, is he like me? I mean, it's just. That just gets you.
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That's great.
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It's a great show.
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And some of the behind the scenes stories.
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Yeah.
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Are hilarious. About when Tom X talks about meeting the kid that plays Young Forest and how he. That's where he got the accent from.
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That's how the kid talks. Yeah.
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And the stuff about the kid. You've seen pictures of that kid now?
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No, I haven't.
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Check it out.
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It's good. So number four for me is Forrest Gump. All right, top three here. Number three is the one I thought we'd have a crossover on, and it's Rocky.
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That's my number one.
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Okay. So I didn't. I didn't anticipate three for us to cross over on, but I knew Rocky would be the one for sure.
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Rocky's number one.
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Number three for me is Rocky, which we've talked about at length on this show. Number two is one that I. I'm not even sure if you've even seen it. I would, I would. I would bet you probably haven't seen my number two.
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Well, there's. That was one on Beth's list that surprised me. Was the movie Marty.
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Really?
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Yeah, it's one of her favorites.
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Okay. Sad.
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Very sad.
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I'm gonna. I'm gonna guess that you've never seen my number two.
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Is it Mrs. Miniver?
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No.
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Is it How Green Was My Valley?
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It is not. It's Braveheart.
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Yeah, I haven't seen it.
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I knew you would. So I absolutely love the movie Braveheart. For a long time I probably would have put it at number one, but I just. I can't do.
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Wait, so that's number three.
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It's number two. Number two was Rocky two. Braveheart.
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Hold on a second. You left something off that I don't. Holy crap.
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What? Well, okay.
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Okay. Oh, my God. This is an upset because this. This means if there's only one slot left.
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Okay.
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Wow.
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Number two is Braveheart. I love the story. I love all the different story arcs in Braveheart. There's the love story, there's the religious undertones and overtones of it and the analogies to Jesus and Braveheart. And the story itself is cool. You get the fighting. So great movie.
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The texting.
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Yeah, the texting and the fighting and the sexting. Number one for me all time is the Godfather. The Godfather's number one.
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It's my number four.
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All right, so. Okay. I wasn't sure you'd have Godfather up there. So four crossovers.
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I can't believe when you left off. But I leave off Godfather 2.
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Oh, yeah. But it's the better film, Godfather for me.
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I am shocked that Godfather 2 isn't on yours.
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Okay.
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Wow. Okay.
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Yeah.
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All right. Now, I had to make a couple of decisions here, and this is really important, and it kills me to do this, because a movie that would have certainly been top three and maybe number one is disqualified.
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Why?
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It's Annie Hall.
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Okay.
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And it's Woody Allen's greatest film, and it's disqualified.
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Get it? Yep.
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It's just. It kills me. It absolutely kills me. That was a formative artwork for me of any kind. An absolutely formative artwork, and I can't include it because he's so disgusting and awful.
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Yep.
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And it just. It sucks that I can't include it because he's so gross.
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Okay.
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So that's disqualified. And I have two honorable mentions. The aforementioned platoon.
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Okay.
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And 2019's best picture winner, Parasite.
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Okay. Now I've never saw it. Oh.
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It's. At the time when I left the theater, I thought to myself, I think I may have just seen the greatest movie of all time. It was so different. And, like, you say things that you try to do and look ahead and was that foreshadowing? And it just. It was so above and beyond what it was, how it did, what it did, and that in multiple viewings, what it continued to reveal it was. So Parasite is honorable mention.
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You know, I've never even tried to watch it, and I.
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Incredible.
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Yeah. I mean, I've heard so many great things from so many people, but I just don't have a desire to do it.
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Well, it'll reward you. I don't know what you know about it, but I just would say, don't know anything when you see it.
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Okay.
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Number 10 is Slumdog Millionaire.
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Yeah, that was on my big list.
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And Slumdog Millionaire, there are questions after the fact about Danny, An Englishman, doing a film about these children in India. Sort of smacked of colonialism. And there were some who accused the movie itself of being colonialistic. But it's as vivid visually a movie as there's been. The scenes, the kineticism, the color palette. Slumdog Millionaire, number 10. Number nine is Spotlight on my big list, too. And Spotlight I just. I felt a connection to, perhaps because of what we went through in various ways on the Boars and Bernstein show, whether it was things going on with the Catholic Church itself because of what happened to me, with the way I left as DePaul play by play guy, because of our spotlighting of the stuff that was going on that was making people mad, the idea. And just the way, like the tears in my eyes watching printing presses run and seeing the power of actual real journalism. Yeah. It was meaningful to me. Spotlight number nine.
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One of the hardest things for me about that film is. Oh, God, now I lose Lief Schreiber. His appearance in the film, the way he.
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He's Marty Baron. Yeah, yeah. Adjectives. Or when he shows up and Len carry you as. As the bishop gives him the catechism.
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Oh, yeah.
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And he goes back in his car.
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Yeah.
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It's so good.
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No, it's a good. Yeah. So that made my big list.
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It's so good. So that's number eight. That's number nine. Number eight is Argo.
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Oh, on my big list, too. Yeah.
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Number. I love Argo.
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Yeah.
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And I can watch it whenever it comes on. If it's on. I'm. I'm locked.
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Also a movie I watched on our flight to Italy.
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Okay, well, that's. That's a choice.
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You're flying.
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Flying overseas, Argo. Yeah, yeah. The difference is when you arrive at Italian airspace, instead of cutting off the alcohol, they immediately bring out the Barolo. So I loved it. And Alan Arkin is, as always, amazing in that movie. There's so many little performances. Argo is number eight.
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Argo fuck yourself.
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Argo fuck yourself. Number seven. No country for Old Men. Yep. The Coen Brothers treatment of Cormac McCarthy. Like you have me at that.
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It's great.
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And how rugged and how fearlessly. It concludes about just this in Tommy Lee Jones character eventually succumbing to the fact that he can't stop this evil. He can't understand it, he can't comprehend it, and he ends up simply envisioning his own death at the hands of something undefined. No country for Old Men is seven. Number six is, I think, the perfect Western in Unforgiven.
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Great, great, great, great, great.
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I'm not a huge Clint Eastwood guy, just in general, but you want him to make some movies for you. And it's. Gene Hackman, is Little Bill, Morgan Freeman, whoever the young man is that plays the Yahoo kid. And it's not his name. I'm just referring to him, the Yahoo Kid, as that.
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Who are you? I'm the Yahoo kid.
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Well, that's essentially what he was there. It's the Yahoo Kid. Everybody in that movie is. And the look of the film, the spartan script, it's great. So that's number six. Number five. 1973 best picture, the Sting.
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Yep.
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And if you haven't seen that in a while you talk about star power. You want star power. And you've got in. In their. The absolute prime of their stardom. You've got Robert Redford and Paul Newman having the time of their lives filming this movie and Eileen Brennan and Robert Shaw as the arch villain, Doyle Lonergan and I mean, Harold Gould is in it and Ray Walston is in there. It is timeless because of when it takes place. So I believe George Roy Hill, the director, I remember as a kid that was one of the first, like, grown up movies that I went to see when I was very young. I don't think it was the first run when it came out, but shortly thereafter, and I adore that movie. Number four is the Godfather. And what's happened to the Godfather, sadly, is movies like Goodfellas and other mob movies that have taken every trope that the Godfather started and sped everything up and made everything more violent and more visceral.
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A
Yeah, it's less of a story. More.
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B
More.
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More violence and.
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Yeah, it feels slow now. The Godfather feels slow.
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Yeah.
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But it is. And it did everything first.
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But I will say this about. You're questioning my, My number one there. It's kind of the. The Godfather. For me, it. It's the whole thing.
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B
The saga.
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A
It's the whole saga. Okay. The whole. It's like the whole series.
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B
I understand, but I couldn't count them.
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Yeah, I get it. No, because they are very different and. Yeah. And people have thought, you know, talked about 2 being much better than 1 and 3 being terrible. I love them all. For me, it represents the whole series.
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I would agree that two is better than one and three is terrible. So that was number four. Number three above that is Godfather two.
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Okay.
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I just. I think it's the better movie.
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Yeah.
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There's. There's the way that it goes between old New York and Sicily and the what's going on in Las Vegas and carrying all of the different plot lines, everything coming together and the what he does to Fredo at the end, you know, no spoiler alert.
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Yeah, for me, it all goes together. And that was also a Christmas day watch. We watched all three in a row because Natalie hadn't seen all three. So it was great.
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B
Number two, and I vacillated between this and my number one because I had such a difficult time deciding. But number two, that I think was also number two. It might have been.
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Yeah.
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B
I think it was number two on Beth's list as well. Silence of the Lambs.
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Okay. Yeah.
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Silence of the Lambs is my number Two.
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So you were between Lambs and Rocky for one and two.
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B
Yeah. Wow.
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And you were in. Wow. Okay. Yep. Because I like, the first thing I wrote down was one godfather. And then I worked from 10 to two.
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B
I didn't. I worked in both directions, but it took me some time. But it just. Rocky's just too big. Too foundational, too fundamental, too. Yeah.
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I assume Rocky would be your number one. I thought Rocky would be your number one.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Okay. Rocky is. Is number one. Silence of the Lambs ended up number two. But it was close. Did almost 1 and 1A.
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Did you ever find out. Did you look to see who bought rock or sliced loans Notebook?
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I. It didn't say.
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I didn't say.
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I've got those results, by the way.
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Yeah.
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B
If you're asking. Did you see what some of those items fetched.
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Well, hang on to that.
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B
Holy shit.
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A
Let's stick with this first and let's do this. Okay, so real, real quick. So that list, I love, love the movies and I'm glad that you didn't dive deep into movies that came out well before you were born.
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B
I've seen them, but they're not as good.
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A
Good. Okay.
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B
Movie making has gotten better.
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A
My big list, some of the movies, Oppenheimer that weren't mentioned. Green book, Spotlight, 12 Years a Slave, Argo, the King Speech, the Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator, Schindler's List, Silence of the Lambs. Yeah, I think that covers everything. But yeah, so my. My big list had a lot of yours as well, too.
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Yeah. Beth had Terms of Endearment, she had Ordinary People.
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Wait, what was her number one?
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B
Her number was Departed.
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A
Oh, Departed, that's right.
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B
Yeah. Sorry, but then it was.
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No, what was the one you said was a surprise? Marty.
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She loved Marty. Okay, yeah, but she had Ordinary People. She had Terms of Endearment, she had Kramer.
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As I said, did she have Kramer's. Because that alcohol goes together.
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B
Yeah. A lot of these more emotional drama dramas.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Yes. Yeah, but you can't Scorsese like long mob sagas.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Forget it.
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A
All right, so I want to take a quick look too, at our picks of the this, this weekend. So Sunday's Academy Awards. I want to look at Best Picture first. Who do you think is going to win Best Picture? Who do you think will win?
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I will tell you this, not only is it going to win, it will likely jump into the top Five on
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my list is Sinners.
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One Battle After Another.
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Oh, okay.
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I think One Battle after Another will Win. And I want it to win.
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All right. For me, I think Sinners will win. I want one battle after another to win. One honorable mention for me in this category, which I absolutely loved, is the movie F1.
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B
Okay.
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A
Oh, dude, yeah, it's great. I assume that you wouldn't have watched it on Apple, but I watched.
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I watched one battle after another last night. Again.
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Did you really? What are you up to now?
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B
Six. Okay.
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I thought it was more than that.
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B
Six full viewings.
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All right, so you think the winner will be one Battle? I think Sinners.
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I do.
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All right, best actress. Who do you think will win best actress?
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B
I think it will be Jessie Buckley. From Hamnet.
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From Hamnet. Yep.
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B
And I don't really have a thought. I haven't seen any of the movies, but I think based on the. The. The tracking so far, I. My pick is Jesse Buckley.
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A
All right, I think Rose Byrne will win for if I had legs, I'd kick you. I would like to see Emma Stone win for Begonia, just like what she did in that. Okay, how about actor? Who do you think will win best actor?
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I have Will win, and my pick are both Michael B. Jordan.
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Same, same, same, same. Will win and my pick to win.
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B
Same.
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A
Same Supporting actress. Best supporting actress.
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B
I think it's Amy Madigan's year.
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A
Okay.
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B
But I want Tiana Taylor, so I
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A
have Tiana Taylor winning. I want Amy Madigan to win, so we're the opposite.
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B
I have not. I haven't seen Amy Madigan's performance yet.
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A
Weapons is good.
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B
Okay. Yeah.
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Best supporting actor.
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Who do you have? I have Sean Penn is my pick, but my. My preference is Delroy Lindo.
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That's. I thought it was for you. I have Sean Penn winning, and I want Sean Penn to win.
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He deserves it. I'm nothing against that performance.
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And you've been talking about Delray Lindo since we brought Sinners up in August.
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B
And Sean Penn's got how many Oscars? Yeah, how many? Seriously, Remember my rule.
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If you're not there, you don't deserve it.
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Oh, he's off filming something.
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A
Maybe because he wasn't there for the SAG Awards. You got to show up to win.
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B
Got to be there. Otherwise it's next on the list.
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A
Next on the list.
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B
It goes down.
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Yes. It's equivalent of a Sean Penn. Last call for Sean Penn.
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B
All right, Delroy Lindo coming on up.
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Hey, congrats. You are our first pick anyway. And then let's finish with the director. Who do you think wins for best director?
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B
Paul Thomas Anderson. Wins. Paul Thomas Anderson was my pick.
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A
I think Ryan Coogler wins.
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B
Okay. All right. And, you know, I loved Sinners, but that's how good one battle after another is. And it killed me. If I had a second supporting actor pick, the more I've seen it, I would say the performance that rises the most on repeat viewings of one battle after another is Benicio Del Toro. As. As Sensei. Yeah, he is. As a comic character and as a selfless driver of the plot. He is kind of a deus ex machina. He is the. He. He's a plot mover. Yeah, because he's. He's magic.
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Still a big miss in the top 10 saints, too. Of all time.
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B
We missed that one. Yeah, we did.
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A
We got called out for it.
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B
Yep.
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A
I think we got called out for it the week after, not 27 weeks later. Zabba dabba.
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B
The winner. Zabba dabba.
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A
Dude.
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B
Yeah. All right, so we're all on the record with all these things now.
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A
All right. All the record. We'll watch it. Are you still putting your tux on and doing, like, a whole spread and.
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B
Sure, I've got one.
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A
I know. I thought you wore your tux for the Oscars.
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B
Might as well. You know, my thing.
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A
I thought you and Beth do like a red carpet and you guys take pictures of each other.
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B
Dead montage is what we get into. Like, when you reach a certain age, you're all about who died.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So who do you think is the final death this year? Who's the last person?
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Last person they show.
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B
Yep.
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Is it. Is Redford still in this window? Okay, so I think it's gotta be Redford, right?
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B
Or Hackman.
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A
But who was more universally beloved was Robert Redford.
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B
Redford.
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A
Yeah. I think. I think Redford ends it.
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B
I do, too.
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A
Okay.
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B
But I gotta have a tough time.
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We gotta make that a pick, too.
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B
Hackman is such a through line for so much greatness. Redford.
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A
It's funny, my mom. So my mom and stepdad, they got
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B
rid of cable, okay.
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A
They don't have cable anymore, so they don't have TV of any kind. They were tired of seeing things on tv.
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B
Good for them.
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A
All they do now is watch movies.
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B
Oh, I thought maybe they read books.
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A
No, they. No, they put them on their heads while they watch movies.
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B
In their bike helmet.
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A
Yes.
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B
While they go halfway downstairs.
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A
Yeah. Yeah. Don't go all the way down. Don't stay all the way up. Get halfway down. So all they do is watch movies now. And I'm like, well, if you don't have Internet to stream things. How do you watch? Well, DVDs. So they go out and they buy. So they have DVDs. That's all they do.
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I've got a bunch they can have. Seriously?
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A
Seriously.
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B
I have from SAG. Yeah, I've got all of, like, the best picture, 20 years.
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A
Bring them in. She'll take them and if she doesn't want them, she'll resell them.
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B
Okay, well, they're not allowed to sell them because they're SAG screeners. I could get my card pulled.
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A
Oh, we'll definitely sell them. Then we'll say that you told us to sell them. So she texted me last night because speaking of Gene hack me, hey, Matt, have you seen Hoosiers? And it's. It's my mother, and she's. What is my mom now? My mom is 85. And so, you know, I don't. I don't respond to her in a way I would respond to you or someone else. I say, yes, I have seen Hoosiers. It's a great film. And she said, gene Hackman is really good in it.
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B
Pretty good. Yeah.
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A
So that's my. My mom. So thanks.
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B
He's pretty good.
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A
And it's probably the first time she's ever watched it, to be honest with you.
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B
Really?
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A
Yeah. She's catching up on things. So. TV shows. She asked me the other day. She. She texts me, have you seen a morning show? The new one on Apple, you know, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston? I said, yes, we love it. It's a great series. Thinking about buying it to watch it because they have to go buy the DVDs of TV series. Like, they bought Yellowstone so they could watch Yellowstone.
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B
Yeah, dude. It's.
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A
So now they do this where. So I went over the other night. I had to grab a couple things from her.
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B
Did you hook something up?
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A
No, no, I had. She had. She had these two, like, little end table things that she really wanted me to take even though I didn't want them. So I went and took them and they're in my garage and I don't know what I'm gonna do with them. So. And she doesn't listen to this, so she wouldn't even know how to listen. So I go over and. And I'm like, what are you watching? And they're watching Towering Inferno. Yeah. And I'm like, great one.
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B
It's also Hack. No, it's not Hackman.
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A
No, it's not Hackman.
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B
Hackman is in Poseidon Adventure.
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A
Poseidon Adventure.
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B
Yes. It's funny you say that, Simpson in Towering Inferno.
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A
I said, oh, Towering Inferno. That's a really, really way to lift up your night. And she's like, oh, we're doing a disaster theme tonight. So now they do theme nights.
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B
That's so cool.
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A
And so they had. So Towering Inferno was the third, and I can't remember what the first one, but the middle one was Poseidon Adventure.
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B
There you go.
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A
So they're doing, like. Yeah. So that's what they do now. They do theme nights, watching movies on dvd.
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B
Awesome.
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A
Yeah. So I think you and Beth should dress up. She puts a gown on, or you put a gown on, she wears your tux.
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B
And we take pictures of each other like red carpet. Step and repeat. Yeah.
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A
Have some fun.
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B
All right, before we do our DBU picks, I want to follow up when we talked yesterday about the Jim Ursay hall of Fame. Yeah.
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A
Oh, yeah, Yeah. I want to hear what. What you. What you read and who got what.
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B
Okay.
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A
I told you yesterday that there'd be some famous musicians or people that would want this stuff. I'd be surprised if there was.
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B
Yeah. Apparently, Derek Trucks bought the Jerry Garcia guitar.
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A
Okay.
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B
And paid 9.4 million for it.
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A
What did that start at? Like, I thought it was like one and a half, wasn't it, or.
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B
Yeah. So this says they got 11,5 for it.
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A
$11 million.
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B
11 million. Wow. Yeah. For Jerry Garcia's custom built electric guitar known as a tiger.
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A
Okay.
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B
And that's Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trux Band and the Allman Brothers Band. But just listen to some of these other numbers. Ringo Starr's drum kit.
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A
The full drum kit.
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B
Full drum kit went for 2.4 million.
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A
Okay.
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B
The bass drum that says the Beatles. That was on the ed Sullivan Show. 2.8 million. The guitar, the David Gilmore Black Strat.
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A
Okay.
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B
$14.5 million.
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A
Wow.
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B
For David Gilmore Strat. And there were some other. The Kurt Cobain Fender Mustang from the Smells Like Teen Spirit video went for nearly $7 million. Jesus. And I was surprised that Secretariat saddle only 1.5 million. That was the low end estimate for that. We should have put a bid in on that one. The other one that I was fairly impressed that went for way over expectation was John Lennon's upright piano.
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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B
The high estimate was 600,000, and it went for 3.25 million. But this was. It was just incredible.
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A
I figured that would go over.
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B
Not gonna go through all of them, but there were some massive number. The total raised for the Jib Ursay hall of fame collection. $84 million.
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A
Yeah. And portions of that will go $84 million. The most portions will keep the handwritten notes about hey Jude. Did you see that one? Curious to know what that went for.
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B
I will grab it. The handwritten notes went just over the high estimate. Just over a million for the handwritten lyrics to hey Jude.
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A
Very cool.
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B
Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for the times there are change and went for 2.5 million.
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A
Not legible, though. He writes like he sings.
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B
Well, he does. He sings like that now. Like, apparently the concerts now it's just sort of.
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A
You. Do you see that movie or. No.
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B
The Dylan movie?
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A
Yeah. Was it. Wasn't it not interesting.
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B
Timothy Chalamet. Chalamet. Not interested.
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A
Yeah, I didn't see it either.
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B
I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in the Bruce Springsteen biopic.
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A
Well, that I knew.
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B
But just. No, thank you. Did you.
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A
Did you ever see the Queen one?
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B
Yeah, I liked it.
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A
Okay. Yeah.
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B
Although the continuity errors, the editing.
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A
Yeah.
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B
There are some YouTube videos that will take you through the horrible editing and continuity errors in that movie.
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A
There's. There's one in. In Braveheart, one of my favorite movies, There's a scene. You've never seen it. There's a scene where Mel Gibson and his, like, childhood buddy, when they're adults, are like, having this contest where you throw rocks at each other. Yeah, I know. Anyway, there's a guy in the background, like, I don't know what part of the production staff he's in or filming crew, but he. There's a guy in a baseball hat that walks in the background. Yeah.
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B
Seriously?
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A
Yeah, that's great.
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B
What does he do in here?
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A
They throw rocks at.
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B
What you wearing on your head?
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A
That's great.
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B
Make Scotland great again.
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A
Oh, God. Don't see that. That's what it says.
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B
Yeah, she turns. That's what it says. Whenever the stakes are high. My bookie is where you turn bets into bankroll. You have a big matchup on the schedule. We're all watching. We all have our takes. And no matter what. The props. The props. The props
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makes Scotland great again.
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That's right, Miska. Oh, yeah. No, it's an XLR table. These things are bad all the time. My bookie is where you should go. Go for all of your prop fun. Because my bookies prop board is deep. It's fun to play. You've got game milestones, you got player performances. You got everything in between. This is the kind of action that keeps. The spread. Live bets during the action, casino games at halftime. Between games, everything's in one place. At MyBookie AG have the code DBU. Your first bet's covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit, bet back bonus token and helps you run it back. The code DBU the place MyBookie AG. Don't just watch the action, make it pay with my bookie. And here are our DBU picks presented by my bookie. We got Bulls and Clippers. Tonight I am going to ride the Modest Boozelis wave because they don't really have a lot of players left last night. They took care of business. Thank you, Luca. With the 51 points and the trash talking with Modest Boozelis, that might not have been such a good idea for modest because that put the old fitty burger on your head. I'm going to go with Boozel is bouncing back against the Clippers and I'm going to take a pair of bets together. 22 or more points, 3 or more 3 pointers. 22 or more points, 3or more 3 pointers. Pairing those in a parlay for Mattis
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and I have three games tonight. We'll start with the Bulls. I'm hoping they do the right thing and lose to the Clippers by more than 13 and a half. So we're going to take clippers laying 13 and a half. Jazz at Portland Trailblazers. Jazz getting 14 and a half and we're going to take all 14 and a half of those. And the New York Knicks are playing at the Pacers and they're giving 13 and a half and we're going to do that. So some big numbers today. The Knicks giving 13 and a half at the Pacers. The Jazz getting 14 and a half at the Trailblazers and the Clippers laying 13 and a half. Hosting yours, Chicago Bulls.
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And that will do it for dbu, brought to you in partnership with my bookie and today by our friends at Chicago Window. Guys, call Russ Armstrong, 847-302-9171. Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 Sports with Verbo Care. Help is always ready before, during and after your stay. We've planned for the plot twists so support is always available because a great trip starts with peace of mind.