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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Chicago Bears - time to show up and play their best ball of the season
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Dan Bernstein
Unfiltered on 312 sports. Happy Giving Tuesday here on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. I'm Dan Bernstein. That is Mattabaticola, a 312 sports podcast. And at 312 Sports Today, because it's giving Tuesday, we are encouraging you to make a donation to a charity that is one that's important to me and it's called Rebecca's Dream. And I've worked with Rebecca's Dream in the past. It's a local Chicago based charity and my wife Beth has told her story for Rebecca's Dream before I've shared mine. And what this organization does is is it not only raises awareness but it provides resources to people regarding the destigmatization of depression, of mood disorders, of bipolar disorder. And it helps people understand the idea of it being okay to not be okay, to foster a better understanding of depression, a better understanding of bipolar disorder. So I would urge you today, when you can, if you're viewing on YouTube, to go check out in the description and look at the links that we have there. If you want to learn more about Rebecca's Dream, donate to Rebecca's Dream. It's a great organization and those of us who deal with various mood disorders and and or have people in our lives who suffer from them as well. It helps you understand them and gives you some ways to begin. Whether it is a better understanding leading to treatment or just being more aware of depression and mood disorders as real diseases, as being just understand that it takes us all to combat the stigma of mental illness and Rebecca's Dream does a wonderful job doing that. So please, please, please check that out. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie and we thank protein bar and Kitchen. Delicious, nutritious and protein packed food and drink. Check out the menu@theproteinbar.com that's great, Dan.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I'm glad that you're bringing up Rebecca's Dream. And you know, I'm really happy that mental health has become something that isn't taboo or, or something that we're afraid to talk about and that recognizing it's, it's real and it's something that we need to, to dive into. Whether you're a man or a woman, but particularly on the male side of things, your mental health is just as important as our physical health. And I know even for men, for decades, it was like we just didn't go to doctors, we didn't care about physical health as much. You know, you're men. You tough it out. I'm glad that it's kind of taken a swing for the better to examine our mental health. And I know there's a lot of, lot of factors in our world today that play an impact and have an impact on our mental health. So I think it's really valuable as a parent of young boys to be aware of that stuff as well. And, and I'm sure there are resources and even through Rebecca's dreams is like what you can do to, to just be be aware and, and know what's going on within your kids lives, you know, your friends, people around you, your family, and what warning signs there might be to kind of, you know, shepherd someone into an area of taking a look at, at their mental health. So very valuable. I'm glad that you brought that up. So thanks for sharing that. I do want to say at the outset of the show as well, too, that I apologize for anything that may happen for the rest of these two shows as we record. I'm just, I'm not feeling my best and I know there's. I have a lot of medicine in me, all different types of home products, so I don't know where it's gonna go today. So just what want to give you a fair warning that we, we may get derailed on either show, both shows. So we'll see. We'll see how it goes.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, we got three shows today. Is. Is Cody.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, yeah. Owc. That's right. No, I'm here. I got you.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I'm all over it. So.
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Dan Bernstein
All right. Just making sure.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So just a warning. When I put the red flag down, planted it in the ground. You've all been warned.
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Dan Bernstein
So fair enough.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Caution.
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Dan Bernstein
Fair enough. Speaking of forewarning or foreshadowing, Ben Johnson told us famously that the Bears would be playing their best football in December. Now correct me if I'm wrong, it is December.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yes, it is.
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Dan Bernstein
They are going to play their very first football game of their best period of football Sunday. They're going in anywhere now from what, six and A half point underdogs to five and a half point underdogs, depending on where you're looking at the latest line.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
At Green Bay.
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Dan Bernstein
At Green Bay. And I did hear that at some point, and I don't know if you heard that George McCaskey himself is going to be convening a rookie symposium or a newcomer symposium. I'm not sure who technically has this as a mandatory attendance meeting about the Bears.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Packers.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, boy.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Yeah. That George himself is going to do some kind of deck, some kind of PowerPoint to let everybody know how much this matter. He's the owner. He's allowed, can do whatever he wants. I just want Ben to have veto power over it. I don't need Kevin Warren there doing anything. I just need Ben to be able to be like, okay, all right. All right, George, everybody. Okay, thanks, George. Packers game. It matters. Now let's talk about where our feet are, where our hands are, where we're looking, where we're going with the ball, because I don't think an appreciation for the rivalry is going to make a critical difference in the outcome.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. And also, let's keep in mind too, when we use the term rivalry, for me, it's a very loose term. The packers have dominated this rivalry over the last, what, 30 games? Okay, that's a lot of seasons of football. What it is, is it's a very old. They have a very old history just from being in the league for a long time. That's really all it is. And a win against the packers is still 1w. One win in the win column. A loss is still one loss in the loss column. I get it. I get that people are fired up and you want to beat Green Bay. The Bears are now one and oh, in their last one game against Green Bay. So let's build off of that if you need to. Okay. I don't need to go back and relive the last 30 games. I really don't. I don't need to relive the history of Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers because it's, it's not. It's been a very one sided rivalry, if you want to use that term. So let's, let's just go out and let Ben Johnson do his thing. I don't, I don't need all these extra dog and pony show stuff. I just, I just don't.
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Dan Bernstein
But it's important to them.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. And then again, he's the owner. If he wants to do it, go after it. But it hasn't been much of A rivalry lately.
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Dan Bernstein
So I, I just think that I, I've always said this, I've always said this. I've said that the, the best thing the Bears can do is as seriously as they may take this rivalry and as important as it is to the family, feel that way about every game, feel that way about that. That's how hard you play. That is the absolute base of what we do is to care about every single opportunity on the field as much as we as an organization care about this game because it plays into all that old stuff. I don't care if they win the super bowl as long as they beat the bag.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yes, they could go 2 and 15 and, you know, I'm happy with that.
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Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So, yeah, you know, and I think Ben Johnson's approach is let's, let's go one and, oh, I mean, let's live one week at a time. And we've heard Caleb say it a lot. And that's not just a Caleb thing. That's got to be a Ben Johnson thing. Go one and oh, this week. And when you plan for it, you scheme against the packers, but, you know, have, you know, a colorless, logoless uniform, colorless logo, less helmets. Take that approach to every single game. Take that approach against the Browns, against the Niners, against the Lions. You have coming up still in this season.
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Dan Bernstein
I am pleased that, that the promise was made by Ben Johnson that the Bears would be playing their best football in December. I remember back to John Fox who, his idea was under promise and over deliver. And he said that in, you know, his, his sort of grumbling, impatient, peeved way he made. And I don't even think that he, he spat it out quite correctly, but this idea of. Of under promise and over deliver rather than the opposite, and maybe that shows a little insecurity. It's sort of the. If you're a Star Trek fan, you always knew that James Doohan as Mr. Scott would do the same thing. It's going to take me all of 8 hours to repair the warp drive. And then he would get it done early because he would double the estimate and everybody would be so excited that he fixed the shields or whatever it was. Ben Johnson's doing the opposite. Ben Johnson walked in here and made it clear that if everybody's listening to him, everything would be better later. And the way this is set up now, because I think. How exactly did I phrase it in the post game? I said, yeah, Caleb wasn't great, but this isn't the time for that, that we were so Excited and so giddy over the game.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
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Dan Bernstein
But I did. But he didn't throw the ball all that well. He did when he had to. He was great in that last drive. But what I think is really important is that they've set it up so the with a lagging passing game performance, if they want to be true to what Ben Johnson said, it's right in front of them. There's two things that they can do better. They can throw the ball better and they can rush the passer better. Over this last set of games, starting now, it's December. You said they're going to play better in December. You're not going to get much better at running the ball. You're not going to get much better at run blocking because that's already awesome.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Right.
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Dan Bernstein
You're not going to get better at takeaways. You might not get better at your. Your secondary overall now that everybody's coming back healthy and you've got an embarrassment of riches at the moment in the secondary. It looks like you got linebackers coming back. Because if I saw correctly with some of the machinations, moving Britton Brown up to the active roster on the running back side probably means that if we sort of propagate what the roster moves mean that they're getting healthier linebacker and maybe that means TJ Edwards is going to be that guy, which would be awesome.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
But you but generate a pass rush and be more efficient and more effective getting those explosive plays in the pass game. More connections in the pass game. And boy, I. We were watching Drake May last night. That's what it looks like.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
That's what being in charge and in rhythm and on time. And I know you're playing an awful Giants defense. It's just in complete chaos with an interim coach and you've benched your first round pick because he can't get to a meeting on time. And then. Do you hear what Abdul Carter said?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
No, what did he say?
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Dan Bernstein
Shit happens. Well, see it's.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Well, shit happens twice, apparently.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, it happened. It can't happen again. Be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there. Young man. I feel like I'm talking to my kid. Just it's. Being on time is really all you have to do. So it's for Drake May to have that performance against them. Might be mighty. Be a mitigating factor, but pretty spectacular.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. No, for sure. And he's had such, such a great season here for, for the Patriots and Mike Vrabel and looking at Caleb, though, and you know, we've been, we've been hard on Caleb and we've had high expectations for him and I think rightfully.
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Dan Bernstein
So, that's not going to change and it shouldn't change.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
But even, even so, we're not talking about perfection. I'm not talking about going 36 for 36 instead of 19 for 36. We're looking at four or five passes that would make a significant difference in.
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Dan Bernstein
A game because they're, they're generally downfield shots, right? Those four or five passes, if you're adding that up to 100 yards, that's materially significant to what they do.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, exactly. And that's all we're talking about. There's three, four, five opportunities a game where he's missing, where the conditions are conducive to him having a completion. And now if the receiver doesn't catch it, that's not on Caleb and that's going to happen. But when he has those opportunities, he has to give those receivers the chance to make those explosive plays and he's just not doing it consistently enough out of those, you know, half a dozen, half a dozen plays that could be significant in what happens in the game itself. And again, you take, you add 3, 4, 5, 6 passes, sometimes it takes that 62% to 69%. It takes that 59% up to 65%. Little more doable in the offense. Again, Ben Johnson's offense, he wants 70% completion rate. He doesn't want that from Caleb. He wants that from whatever quarterback is running his offense. 70% is the mark and he needs to get better at hitting those open opportunities. And I think he will. And if he doesn't, at some point down the road, he won't be the quarterback of this offense if he's not doing it consistently enough, you know, and I'm not advocating for that. I don't want that. Caleb Williams is the guy I want running the Bears for the next 10, 12, 15 years, whatever it might be, however long he can be effective as a quarterback. That's what I want. Don't mishear that. Don't put something in my mouth that I didn't say, because that's not what, that's not what, that's not what I was insinuating at all. I just know that when Ben Johnson was the passing coordinator in Detroit before he became the oc, they got rid of a first round draft pick in Matthew Stafford. That's what they did. Do not think that he won't be Afraid to do something down the road if it's necessary to run a better offense. It's just that simple.
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Dan Bernstein
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Dan Bernstein
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Dan Bernstein
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Drake May. I had two plus touchdowns that hit. I had Wendell Carter Jr. Hitting one three to get the over of 0.5 that hit. I had the Bulls plus eight and a half. They lost by five. All three of those things hit. Now, what I would also say is it makes me. I get scared and I get anxious when you send me an email or you send me something on Blue sky, wherever that says, hey, I'm writing with all of your picks.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And it's my rent money.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly. This is. This is like, my kid desperately needs surgery on his heart, but instead, I bet all the money on your picks. That's bad for my anxiety, generally.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So, in other words, don't send you emails letting you know, if you do it, just keep it to yourself.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, if you do it, great. But it's. If you're like, hey, let's go with this. Here we go, Bernstein, we got all these games going on. Like, I. I don't need that aggravation in my life.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So you're not suggesting that people take all their Christmas money they had set aside for their kids and use it.
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Dan Bernstein
On a. I'm suggesting.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Riding with you.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm ride or die.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
That.
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Dan Bernstein
That you can use my picks as you see fit in your best judgment, whether it is for your own information and edification, whether it's merely for entertainment purposes, but just please don't. Because then I start. My mind starts spiraling, and I start apocalizing how much you know, where that money could otherwise go or where it was earmarked for something important for your children or your loved ones. Grandma's surgery, something.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Grandma's case of vodka.
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Dan Bernstein
Grab his bag of dildos.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, maybe you're buying her a new bag.
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Dan Bernstein
Maybe she needed. Or not. Just maybe. Right? The actual bag itself needs to be replaced because it's it's growing.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
She takes it everywhere with her.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, she always had slung over her shoulder.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, My. My picks. I had. I had Patriots giving seven, so that came through, but the. The. They went over. I think it was 43 and a half. I didn't think the Giants would get the double digits, so that's why I went that route. And honestly, I'm not even sure if I knew Jackson dart was playing. You see the shot he took in the sideline, the legal hit that he took?
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Dan Bernstein
I did.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
He got blowed up.
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Dan Bernstein
He. Real good.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Real good. Yeah, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
He. You know what, though? They've been saying, as long as you're on that white line, as long as you are not out of bounds.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, he. His foot was. He had one foot still in bounds.
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Dan Bernstein
When he got hit.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So it's like, get out of bounds, bro.
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Dan Bernstein
He was in bounds. In bounds.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. There are people look like, looking to take your head up, like, head off your shoulder. So get out of bounds.
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Dan Bernstein
There's every opportunity for somebody to clobber you.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I mean, you could slide out of bounds even if you want. Like, do it. Don't be macho about it. Just go down. You're the quarterback. You have that right.
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Dan Bernstein
And I.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Especially when you got, what, four. Four concussion issues this year.
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Dan Bernstein
I would think he's going to get that particular talk as well, that someone's going to say, hey, man, I know you're. You're young and you think you're immortal and all that, but this league will. Will hit that out of you. We'll knock out those perceptions in a blink.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Hey, by the way, this is a mini can of 7Up that I have.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, you didn't all of a sudden become a giant.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, I feel like Andre the Giant drinking like a regular can. We had these mini ones from Thanksgiving down here in the fridge, so I love those. But I keep looking at my hand.
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Dan Bernstein
Looks huge.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It's like a Batakola got, like, elephantitis of the hand.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I hope elsewhere if you're doing it right.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Well, maybe I did do it right, and I just wanted a big right hand.
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Dan Bernstein
No, then you're Michelangelo's David, which has the oversized hand, because in the Bible it said that King David was strong of hand.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So Michelangelo made and tiny of wiener.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, kinda, yeah. And then you can still walk behind there and see that. So of course, I had to do the joke. I did it when Beth and I went to Florence on our honeymoon. And then I had to do it again for the kids.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Did you put the penis on top of your head, like you sat underneath.
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Dan Bernstein
It for the photo or. No, no. So you know what I always used to do? Just sort of idly for no apparent reason. You're standing in the kitchen or whatever, and you just kind of put your hand over here and you go, oh, my God. And the kids go, what? And. And I say, I have a huge crack in my ass, so. Cause, you know, it's just something one does.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
So I went behind. This is one of the greatest works of art on earth, right. In civilization. One of the greatest individual works of art cut from a single block of marble. No one. So, of course, what do I do with it? I walk behind it and I go, oh, my God, there's a huge crack in his ass. Beth is like this. Because I'd already done it. I already did it in 1999 on our honeymoon, and the kids are there, like.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So you did it for the benefit of the kids?
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Dan Bernstein
Is he. Is the kids like. Is he really? We flew halfway around the world so he could do the crack in the ass joke? Well, yeah. If not now, if not here, then when? What's the point of living?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I think you gotta take alive, take advantage of that opportunity while you have it.
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Dan Bernstein
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
What is that? Apple cinnamon nutmeg. What was that?
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Dan Bernstein
It's the California almond milk holiday nog. Apples, maple syrup, vanilla whey protein nutmeg.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Well, that sounds good. That sounds.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I know it does. Wow. It does, doesn't it?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
A lot better for you than an actual full of butterfat eggnog.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, no, for sure. Once I get back downtown, I'm gonna have to stop over on Lake Street.
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Dan Bernstein
I think you are.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Grab one.
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Dan Bernstein
I think you are. I think that is exactly what you're going to do. I also want to take a step back here for a moment. The world of college football has never appeared more absurd to me. And I'm not saying it's not fun or that it's not interesting, but it is patently absurd. What is happening in this world? We can get into the fact that Michigan State having gone through the whole Larry Nassar thing, you know, we left out yesterday when I was talking about that, the Mel Tucker thing, like, oh yeah, you had to get rid of Mel Tucker.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yep, I forgot about that.
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Dan Bernstein
He was sexually harassing the sexual harassment advisor. Yeah, like that. That's for a question for. Is this irony?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, that's next level stupidity.
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Dan Bernstein
Next level, he's on zoom calls with the woman in charge of policing sexual harassment and he's whacking off while he's talking to her. So they hit Mel. Mel, man. No, you gotta go away and never coach again. That's, that's no good.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, I forgot about Mel Tucker.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I wonder if Mel's like, what, What I do. Well, here's what she did.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It was off camera.
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Dan Bernstein
Come on. She's the sexual harassment advisor.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
What do you mean?
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Dan Bernstein
I'm like, I can't whack myself. No, Mel, you can't do that.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, Mel, you're not supposed to sexually harass her. That's not the point of the job.
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Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
So then they am I doing good.
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Dan Bernstein
How's this? You got any tips or pointers? Mel? Mel, no.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
How can I get better at this?
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Dan Bernstein
That's right. Out that thing. Can't do that. I'm sorry, we were unclear in the concept, Mel. So Mel gets his money and Mel goes away and then he.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
But she's the advisor. Come on. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
No, Mel. No, no, no. I'm breaking into Jack Hanna of the Columbus Zoo. Dave, no. Dave, the vulture can't go near the cobra. Move that. Dave. No, it's not going to fly away. Dave.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
You think Jack Hannah ever brought Mel Tucker to Dave's show?
- [29:38]
Dan Bernstein
Rick takes him out of like a big rubber made container.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Dave, this is Mel Tucker. You gotta be careful. No, he's gonna start touching himself. Be careful, Jack. What happens if I do that? Dave, don't do that. There's an interesting through line here with Michigan State because apparently they want the guy who claims he had no knowledge of a years long harassment regime that was in place there that made people walk through naked football players to get to the shower and stuff. They called that the car wash. They had names for all of them, I guess.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, yeah. And what we discussed yesterday was that he was, I mean he was known for creating culture and the whole irony of it was his culture was toxic and is about as bad as it can get.
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Dan Bernstein
The worst. Yeah.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. And so like what is, what does Michigan State get from hiring Pat Fitzgerald? Like what are you getting?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. I don't know.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And what's he been doing for how many years has it been?
- [30:43]
Dan Bernstein
Two and a half, three years? We'll see. It's not that long, but that's their choice. That's good luck to you. Was exactly what I said yesterday. I'll say it again, good luck to you on that. Meanwhile, apparently players wanted Lane Kiffin to want him to just at least be honest with them at Ole Miss about what he was doing and then he wasn't and he didn't tell them. And then Lane Kiffin is saying, well, everybody wanted me to stay in coach, but now they won't let me stay and coach. But I gotta go over here to LSU because I talked to God and God said I have to go there. And LSU had the governor who say we're firing the athletic director because he gave guys too much money and now I'm going to be in charge and this guy's not in charge anymore. So we are going to anoint the acting AD who was also part of a scandal, who also oversaw their Title 9 issues, whatever that was. But that person's in charge. And now as governor, I'm going to give this person the exact contract that I fired the guy for giving the other guy. And they weren't sure if they actually fired Brian Kelly. So everybody's going everywhere now. Every player seems to be able to go everywhere, which is great. That, that's awesome that you can't be mad at. The coaches can go everywhere and the players can go everywhere. Now we have Tim Brando of Fox taking to social media to go scorched earth on ESPN personalities for being in the tank for the SEC because they carry the SEC, they have connections to the SEC. And he just says that Kirk Herbstreet and Booger McFarland and everybody involved there, and he calls them out by name. He says that all they're doing is stumping for the sec because that's business. And my head's spinning because I don't give a shit. As long as the games are good. Yeah, as long as the games are good, great. But the intensity of allegiance, for something this absurd, at least in the pros, you know what's up and what's down and who's what and who represents what. It is incredible to me the speed at which all of these power conferences with these massive contracts allowing coaches to do whatever they want, whenever they want is. It still engenders this intensity of allegiance.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, but even if a contract was, as we discussed earlier, like a hard contract, I mean, there's no coach that would sign that. There's no coach that would never.
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Dan Bernstein
They don't have to.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
A coach wouldn't sign something where he doesn't have an out.
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Dan Bernstein
It's all out. They can leave whenever they want and take all the players with them.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, but I mean, but if you like you could put something in there where you couldn't go coach somewhere else, like within a certain conference maybe, or. I don't know, I mean, you could put anything you want in a contract and someone signs it, they sign it.
- [33:53]
Dan Bernstein
But the coaches have all the power. The coaching agents, this handful is cabal of coaching agents holds all the power. They can do whatever they want.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Well, you know, and let's see if, and I don't know what you think if, if there's a change, a swing back in the, in the pendulum with you look at guys like Kirk Signetti or Clark Lee at Vanderbilt who, you know, got the school's very first 10 win season ever. They both got big extensions recently. Within the last several weeks. Clarkson was more Recent than Kurt's. Like, do you think guys like that stay and build something? Is that. Is there a swing back where I'm going to see where I can take this to where I can take the Vanderbilt level, where I can take the Indiana football level to national recognition year after year after year. Or is it. Or is Clark Lee heading out when something bigger and better comes, that's not Vanderbilt. And when something bigger and better from a football program comes out for Indiana, for Kurt, does he leave too?
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Dan Bernstein
I think the question is whether or not somebody can weather a slight downturn and weather that. All it takes is one powerful booster to get itchy when there's a downturn. When somebody has a bad couple of years, there's no excuse for having a bad couple of years because you're constantly re recruiting your own players. You can go into people who've committed to other schools and make them decommit from those schools. And everybody wants to, you know, be good, stay good, win the national championship every year. Even if somebody did commit, if Lane Kiffin can't stay at Ole Miss when they essentially offered him the same deal and you can go try to win a national title there, and there's like, they, oh, you came here and said you're going to bring us to national prominence and now you got a chance to do it and you can't wait to leave.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Right?
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Dan Bernstein
You know, which is fine. As long as the players can leave too. That's fine to me. It comes down to some of the fans, like the, the amount of. Of your soul that you commit to caring about these programs when nobody else really, really gives a damn as much as you do.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
The commitment level. The commitment level from the fans is greater than the players who have the opportunity to leave and go wherever they want. The coaches can do the same thing. Yeah, no, and, you know, I can't speak to it intelligently because I've never been affiliated with a big football program or a school and never had great passion about it. I mean, this is probably the most, you know, passion or excitement. I've watched a football season with Vanderbilt and Diego Pavia this year, and when this season ends and he's done with his final bowl game, I probably won't be watching Vanderbilt football anymore. You know, it's just. And I'll go on to the next thing. Before this, it was Michigan because I like Jim Harbaugh and I always liked Jim Harbaugh as a professional quarterback. And I followed him to the Colts and watched, watched him play for the Colts. And so I followed him to Michigan and, you know, whatever the next love affair will be next season, you know will be. I can promise you it won't be Lane Kiffin, but I don't know where it's going to land, but it certainly.
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Dan Bernstein
Won'T land at lsu and it's always been minor league pro ball and now it's just more overtly minor league pro ball. And that's fine. It just as much as it retains the veneer of the old, dear old state and the college traditions and all that, it looks. The juxtaposition of the cleaving to old school tradition with the truth of the professional nature of what's going on to me ends up being a little bit dramatic, jarring. Because the allegiance is still there and the connection and the alums and Columbus, Ohio and all of that is that that stuff is still there even as the fabric of it doesn't really exist anymore.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Right.
- [37:44]
Dan Bernstein
Which is. It's a fascinating evolution to watch all of these truths be out there in front of us in a way that has empowered the player and is. Is making guys. And the best part is watching the guys like Dabo Sweeney who've always fought against this. And I'll quit when the players get paid and I run a ministry here and our movement is bigger than football and, and just watching, watching.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Has he quit yet?
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Dan Bernstein
No, he hasn't quit yet. He's just losing his mind on the sidelines and screaming at everybody. And it doesn't realize that he wasted the last five years bloviating rather than trying to get up with the times. I love that I can't get enough of the downfall of Dabo Sweeney because it's just, just absolute chef's kiss. It's just the, the food of the gods to watch him be miserable. So I've got no problem with that. And the guys, the guys that are adapting are. And they'll. And they'll adapt until they win and they move on somewhere else. But at some point we have to. Something's got to. Like you say. Signetti would be an example of somebody who says, I am signing a rock solid contract here. I am not leaving. This is where I'm going to coach for the rest of my life.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. Because what did he sign, like a six or eight year extension? So we'll see how that all plays out. Clark Lee, I think, did the same. But I guess, you know, we have a listener out there or some that are, you know, passionate college football fans to their school or to a school, whatever reason they can Share their thoughts, how they feel about it. Would love to hear some feedback. For Friday Feedback, you can email dan@danyonetwosports.com and share your lengthy college football thoughts.
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Dan Bernstein
That is Dick. That is feedback. Friday feedback.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, yeah, sorry. Whatever it is. Oh, and I'll. I'll never. My passions will never land at Notre Dame either. I just want to make sure that's clear.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, thank you.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
In case you were like, wondering, man, maybe Matt will root for Notre Dame next year. No, that'll never happen.
- [39:49]
Dan Bernstein
Okay, I was going to check on that. I was checking.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
If Notre Dame was the last college to play college football ever, then I wouldn't watch a single thing. If they were playing themselves and playing with themselves, maybe they can hire Mel Tucker.
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Dan Bernstein
You can just watch Mel Tucker.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Let's tune in Notre Dame Tucker channel. What are you doing? Am I doing a good advisor?
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Dan Bernstein
Is this right? Am I sexual harassing properly? No, no. I'm not here to advise you how to do it. I'm here to advise you not to do it. Oh, not to do it.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I mean, the fact that you need someone to tell you you shouldn't do it is, you know, in and of itself special.
- [40:29]
Dan Bernstein
How to avoid. Avoid it. I thought these meetings were to teach me how to do it. And this is why my pants are off.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And here I'd like to welcome Dan Johnson. He's our new murder advisor. Hey, murder's bad.
- [40:45]
Dan Bernstein
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I think you should.
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Dan Bernstein
Or I'm just gonna do it for myself and I'm gonna put it on my side of the bathroom just so I can have like a dig me frame. It's a gift to me of just pictures of me holding enormous fish.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, I think you should do that. And I can. I can talk. We've been using ours now for a couple months and honestly, we love it. So we had it set up right before Halloween and we've been putting pictures. We had all the Halloween pictures over the last several years.
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Dan Bernstein
That's great.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And so it would just. It rotates through. And then we paused the Halloween pictures, added Thanksgiving Day pictures. So then all the like, November and Thanksgiving pictures were coming through and now we've changed that up to Christmas so it's all Christmas photos of kids throughout their, their life and our last three years together in this house. So it's really cool. I set it up and then added Natalie to it so she can just post pictures directly to it. So you can add people. And then, you know on your smartphone when you go to like send a photo.
- [44:04]
Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And like the options will come up, like who to send it to.
- [44:07]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, so it'll automatically be on there.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
The Aura frames comes up with a little icon. So you send it directly to the Aura frame and it goes. And it's amazing. And then you can just go into the app anytime. And then like the Thanksgiving pictures, I just had to pause those. They're saved in there, but they're paused so they're not showing. We have videos going. We have pictures going. And when we had people over for Thanksgiving, there was 25 people here, including our kids. So there's 20 people that came over that don't live here. They were all looking at it, at the order frame. They all asked about it. They all loved it. And they're just watching the photo scroll through. And you can set it up to go a little faster or longer so you can see the photos longer, but it's fantastic. And then the volume, you can do for. For videos. If you post videos, you get to hear them and see them. So I'm telling you, I was. It was never something I was ever into, but once we got it, started using it, we love it, love it, love it, love it. And just keep posting pictures to it.
- [44:55]
Dan Bernstein
Let me just add this. It's a great gift for grandparents.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, yeah. Then you can load it up for them.
- [45:01]
Dan Bernstein
You can load it up. You can set it up. All they do is take it out of the box and there are their beloved grandkids on a loop with pictures of them, whatever you want to program on there. And they just. They set it there and it's. It can get exactly the reaction you'd expect. So again, the promo code is dbu@a u r a frames.com. that is for $35 off their bestseller.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. And if the grandparents are still alive, they'll enjoy it even more. So.
- [45:31]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I know. Yes. I should say that. I think that was written actually here on the copy that if. If alive, it's. They'll enjoy it.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, they'll get more enjoyment from it.
- [45:40]
Dan Bernstein
A little. A little bit. A little bit. I got a little bit more enjoyment watching the Bulls last night despite the loss. And it's.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It's too bad that125.120, is that right? Yeah.
- [45:52]
Dan Bernstein
And it's too bad that they faced this team at this time because it seems like it took some really, really bad losses to bum teams for the Bulls to get the message about how hard they have to compete physically to play in this league. The film got out, and we're going to talk about this today. And organizations win championships, which is going to drop later this afternoon. We're going to get into some fine detail on this and the trade rumors that are swirling. But the Bulls are missing everybody. And then Kevin Herder left with an injury early in the game.
- [46:29]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
They already left real early.
- [46:30]
Dan Bernstein
They didn't have Kobe White. They didn't have Isaac Okoro. They didn't have Dale and Terry. So Julian Phillips had to play a lot. How about Lachlan Ulbricht getting some run? Lachlan Ulbricht. So you figure that that was in case of emergency. Billy Donovan needs at least one dude who can compete and throw his weight around. He can't really do much other than play hard. And the problem is other teams have bigs who play hard, who are like 7ft tall and have crazy long arms and block every shot like Gogo Batase was doing. Guys last night, Goga was a, a force in there ever since he grew his hair out. Man, he's looking like a menacing dude.
- [47:15]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
He's like Samson.
- [47:17]
Dan Bernstein
He was, he was something.
- [47:18]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Gets his power from his lengthy hair.
- [47:20]
Dan Bernstein
And Desmond Bain is a real good player also. How about that broadcast? Did anybody else watch the Peacock broadcast where they had Vince Carter sort of embedded on the end of one bench, Austin Rivers on the other bench and the play by play guy by himself? Austin Rivers is really good. He's a fun. Listen, he's a really. That. I didn't, I didn't mind. I thought, oh God, this is gimmicky. This is gonna suck. And it didn't. It was actually better than I thought about how they kept up with everything, how conversational it was, how they were kind of talking to each other. You had the young guy and the old head, the hall of Famer and Vince Carter talking about some things and they did a pretty, pretty good job actually breaking down some X's and O's. So overall I enjoyed it. It wasn't really a well played game. The Bulls are. The book is out. The book is out. Just, just. They can't really stop anybody even for a single dribble on the perimeter. The blow bys are just too easy. And other teams are getting wherever they want whenever they want. They're grabbing every rebound. Billy had a great angry timeout. It was a free throw. And despite two Bulls being there, Desmond Bain just, just grabbed the missed free throw, laid it in. And Billy comes racing off the bench. And you heard he spins on his heel and you heard him go, God damn it, right when he called the timeout. And it was almost exactly the same time I yelled it. And I just sort of felt this like. Oh yeah, you saw what I saw.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
There was a kinship there.
- [48:58]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I would have done this same thing. I would have, I would have. I was standing, God damn it. And you heard Billy say it so loudly. But the Bulls have some issues. They got some problems when, when they're playing Emanuel Miller and they're playing Lachlan Ulbricht just to try to get some physicality. I don't think they played all that badly. They hit shots, man. The I.O. was draining shots, Giddy was draining shots. And it was a really entertaining game. But the ultimately, what I got out of that was that. They're pretty far away now that the league has adjusted.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Now if guys don't move well defensively, you can't. That's not something you can. Is that something you can teach?
- [49:41]
Dan Bernstein
You just. I want to.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Because I mean you could. You can teach defensive schemes and understanding and guys intelligence level can increase, but if you just don't move well defensively and just don't use your body well, I don't. I'm not sure if that's something you can teach.
- [49:55]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, you got to get in the defense.
- [49:56]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And then how do you have a roster full of guys that just don't. You play defense.
- [50:00]
Dan Bernstein
You gotta get. Just bend your knees, man. Okay, widen out.
- [50:04]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It can't be just that simple though.
- [50:05]
Dan Bernstein
Get defensive stance, just two dribbles. I'm not asking you to stay with a guy for three dribbles, but the time that it buys you if the blowby occurs. If you can't stop a single dribble, you don't give help a chance to come. If you can defend for two dribbles. Now you're allowing the space to shrink a little bit. Now you're allowing for at least the awareness of if he gets by on the next dribble, I've got to go and recover. But they don't even have time to rotate. It happens so fast and so easily. Even a well positioned, disciplined defense doesn't have time. You simply can't do it. They're too quick, they're too long.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Do they have that discipline though, to know when to rotate and to create that opportunity to. To have help?
- [50:51]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, potentially, yes. They. They have people who should be expected to be able to do that. They're NBA players.
- [50:56]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. I mean, you would think they.
- [50:58]
Dan Bernstein
They should be expected to be able to do that. The other thing is the Bulls dribble is getting attacked now. As soon as they turn a corner, the weak side defender is digging, is coming in to slap at the ball. And it's happening with giddy. It's happening. It's going to keep happening with. With IO, with Kobe. They've just got to be really careful. It's happening with Modest Bouzelis a lot. Even though he's playing well. His handle's too loose. He's just. His ball security is bad and I would like for him to fix that. These areas of improvement are clear for the Bulls. This was supposed to be the easy portion of their schedule, and it certainly was not. But it gives them some marching orders if they can find some time to practice and they need it. They. They need to figure all that stuff out. Now. I also, I, I have a list of some other things I want to get to Our. Our little experiment on the Bears offensive line nickname.
- [51:57]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
There was one. One that came through that I loved.
- [51:59]
Dan Bernstein
It's not going great, I would say.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Okay, there's one that I liked and.
- [52:02]
Dan Bernstein
Then I like the idea of guard center guard of what. What can we call that?
- [52:06]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
The.
- [52:06]
Dan Bernstein
The. The fulcrum there. What are they. And a couple people had some riff on interior decorators or interior designers or the Interior.
- [52:17]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Department of Interior.
- [52:18]
Dan Bernstein
Department of the Interior.
- [52:20]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I liked that.
- [52:23]
Dan Bernstein
I like the idea of interior decorators because that. Just the idea of the style of that. We could have a lot of fun if they were known as the interior decorators. Trainers. It just. It just needs work. It was. It was a start. We're not there yet.
- [52:39]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
You didn't like the wrecking crew and the photo that your guys sent?
- [52:42]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, I. With Kevin Warren on the. Saying he likes cranes and he's holding a football or a shovel. I should say on top of the cranes. Yeah, it's. It. We're. It's a start.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Okay. Start. All right.
- [52:56]
Dan Bernstein
We're not there yet. I appreciate all the work and maybe it's a non starter. Maybe we can't find anything and it never takes shape and I have no problem with that. Thanks also to those who sent a. There was one video. I asked for the video of Andrew Billings trying to chase down Jalen Hurts put to the evangelist Chariots of Fire theme and I got that as Big Bill is hustling his way over to the sideline. And that's good. Thank you.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Send that to me.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't.
- [53:29]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Maybe I missed it in the emails. If I didn't get attached on it. Send it over. Maybe I can get it pulled up here for forward progress.
- [53:36]
Dan Bernstein
I will. I will absolutely send that over to you. And also thanks to the community of loud flossers out there, I mentioned that I have been told by my wife that I am a loud flosser and that I am to close. Close the door of the bathroom and. Or multiple doors because the sound of flossing is too loud. We are joined in union as loud flossers with all. Everybody out there said, hey, the same's been said of me. And apparently there's also a subset of this group messy flossers. And these are the flossers who leave chunks of food and. Or scraps in the sink. Here's the thing. Gross brush before you floss, rinse the.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Damn sink out, you slob.
- [54:24]
Dan Bernstein
And. Well, that's. That's after that. But also rinse your mouth out. Get all the chunks of stuff you don't want a big piece of pork chop. It has to be. That should not be flossed out.
- [54:37]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
If you got like multiple big chunks of food here, you might want to go to the dentist and get checked out. There might be a greater issue there than just flossing.
- [54:44]
Dan Bernstein
And it was more than one person who said that. Their issue has been, like, the amount of food that comes out with proper flossing. Something's wrong there.
- [54:53]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Chew and swallow. Try that.
- [54:54]
Dan Bernstein
Let's.
- [54:55]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Let's give that a whirl and see if that helps at all.
- [54:59]
Dan Bernstein
Are you stopping the car to take bites out of roadkill on your.
- [55:04]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah. What's happening?
- [55:05]
Dan Bernstein
I'm not quite sure what's happening. Oh, possum.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I saw the one. One email. The guy said he was sent to his car to floss. He's so loud.
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Dan Bernstein
I think that was a joke.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I hope so.
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Dan Bernstein
I hope so too. I don't think he.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I wouldn't put it past him.
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Dan Bernstein
Now, I. Lastly, I have a chunks.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Of food all over the dashboard.
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Dan Bernstein
And I have a question. Are we. You watch a lot of sports, right? No. Well. But you watch more than the average person. Probably just play along. Okay.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I watch sports all the time. That's all I watch is sports.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I. Seriously, that's all I watch straight man.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I'm watching sports right now.
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Dan Bernstein
Constantly. You're constantly watching?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Constantly on.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Scored a goal.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Go, go team.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Woo.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Now we're ahead of the other team.
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Dan Bernstein
You're watching curling?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
International curling. Live. You get up every morning.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I coach, so.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, now, now. Russ Armstrong's gonna be mad. Sorry, Russ. I would never say anything bad about curling. On your watch.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, I put one of the curling balls through the window the other day.
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Dan Bernstein
Curling ball.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Damn, kid. What are they called? The stones. Yeah, one of those. Right through the window. It broke it too.
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Dan Bernstein
And members of the Stones. So are we seeing way more pharmaceutical ads during sporting events than we ever did?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I think we're seeing more pharmaceutical ads, period.
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Dan Bernstein
I agree.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I mean, there are. You can't watch anything. And even now when you stream and some of the streaming things have commercials that come through. I think prime has commercials now. It's super. I don't know about the pain. More to get the commercials off, but even then it's. It's like. But I like it, though, because I like the names that they make up. For these drugs like Skyrizi is one of my favorites.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, but the actual name of Skyrizi is so much fun. Is it like Rhysm Kismrism or something?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
But I like Skyris.
- [57:02]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It's like I want to walk and I walk into every room I go into to and I say Skyrizi. And that's because I love it. I just think it's a great name.
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Dan Bernstein
Look up the actual name of that drug. It's like Jism Kevrism I think.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, Mel Tucker does that one. I think, I think there's more pharmaceutical commercials on period. Not just sporting events.
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Dan Bernstein
There are, but it's, it's. But where the, the eyes are is on live sports.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Sports.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, and even local.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I think, I think big pharma is.
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Dan Bernstein
A thing like actual pharmaceuticals. Not like the fake stuff. Yeah, not, not the herbal stuff that they're. They just make it up.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, the medicine doctors make. Yeah, but the Kyle Tucker's guy.
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Dan Bernstein
And let the record show the voodoo doctors. If, if big pharma wants to advertise with 3one2 sports, no problem. Bring it. It's all good. It just these a lot of long expensive commercials that are always have to remind me what the possible side effects are. So yeah, this is.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Sometimes I listen to the side effects and I think I'd rather deal with the issue at hand than have the side effect.
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Dan Bernstein
Right, right. Do you have eczema? And would you like to clear up your skin? Okay, fine. Would you also like explosive constant diarrhea or whatever it is.
- [58:17]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Right. Or death? Like. Oh, I'd rather just have itchy skin.
- [58:20]
Dan Bernstein
Right, Itchy skin. Is it cake or death? Cake or death? Cake please. Cake or death cake. We're gonna run out of cake. Death, I mean cake. You said death first.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I think there's a lot of money in big pharma though. I think so. It's a possibility.
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Dan Bernstein
Call me Big Pharma, but there is. I just noticed that it is a. It's now much more common. It used to just be cars and beer and cars and beer and cars and beer. And now it's, you know, hair regrowth. Well, not even like real drugs though. It's like you say it's rhythm Kism, Skyrizi and it's.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
And then there's the one, there's the one. You see the one where. I think it's guardians. I think it's guardians. The one where they have jardians where they do like a whole. It's like a Whole musical, but like a baseball team in nondescript uniform and they're singing and dancing with baseball bats and they twirl around. Have you seen that one?
- [59:15]
Dan Bernstein
I've seen the one.
- [59:16]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
That's my favorite one. I love that one.
- [59:18]
Dan Bernstein
There's. There's.
- [59:18]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Really entertaining.
- [59:19]
Dan Bernstein
There's. The Jardiance is great for me. I'm lowering my A1C. There's that one. Then she's dancing around a fountain or something like that.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
But yeah, it's not the fountain of youth, though.
- [59:32]
Dan Bernstein
I don't know. It could be the fountain of health.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yes.
- [59:35]
Dan Bernstein
But it just. I've been noticing that it has been. There's a ton of sports advertising dollars, that whatever subset that was, that used to be major big company pharmaceuticals, you know, Lilly and Novo Nordisk and all these big companies that it's been interesting to me to see that they believe that their money is well spent in sports. And I don't know if that's a sign of an aging sports population or is that a sign of something that is going on in Medicare, Medicaid, or what is happening with people's ability to have dis. Discretionary income to spend.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Are you saying that watching sports makes us unhealthy?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't. Well, I didn't exactly draw that conclusion, but I'm. I'm just wondering why it's become more fertile ground for some of these advertisements than it's been in the past.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
What was the one thing that we used to always sing? Was it a low single? Was it that one? Was that. Was that the tune?
- [60:39]
Dan Bernstein
Sing spawn delight is DDT. Yeah. It was either on Wisconsin or the DePaul fight song, which is just a sped up on Wisconsin. Okay.
- [60:52]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, I think that's what it was. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. Yeah, I. I like that one.
- [60:55]
Dan Bernstein
Spondylitis. And then. And then, remember the sales rep came into Terry and said, you got to stop making fun of ankylosing spondylitis. Because anybody who got hurt, Terry, was saying they have ankylosing spondylitis. So the salesperson comes and goes, hey, they don't like it. Do not. Don't make fun of it. So Terry nods his head. He goes, okay, okay, okay. And the salesperson leaves. We come immediately out of commercial. Remember this?
- [61:20]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
No, I don't.
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Dan Bernstein
You don't. We come immediately out of commercial. And Terry's like, okay, well, they told me I can't make fun of ankylosing spondylitis anymore. So now I've got A worse problem. And I have to deal with ankylosing spongy penis.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Like. Well, like that's the last thing to do is tell Terry. It's like telling a child, right? Like, okay, the stove is hot. Don't touch the stove. Don't go touch the stove immediately.
- [61:50]
Dan Bernstein
You can't tell Terry not to say something.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Right.
- [61:53]
Dan Bernstein
Like the guy with the pizza hat. Remember.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
There was a.
- [61:59]
Dan Bernstein
Yes, Which. Yes. Which is perfect for packers week. Oh, come on. So there's the cheese head. Foam cheese head. Right. So a Chicago guy made a giant deep dish pizza slice hat. And it was back in the day where, like, he was. He, you know, walked back when anyone could, like, walk into the office and he came in with boxes of them and. And he wanted the free advertising. He's handing them out, and he ended up in the studio. Like in your studio on your side of the glass. Here, you got to try this. Here. Tell everybody about this. And I. I don't know if a salesperson let him in or what.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
It was probably. It was probably John Hand Crusher, and he hands one.
- [62:38]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, that was the. That was the drunk guy that passed out in the urinal.
- [62:41]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, at the north party.
- [62:43]
Dan Bernstein
No, that's a different guy.
- [62:44]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, it was.
- [62:45]
Dan Bernstein
That's a different guy.
- [62:46]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, oh, the Trojan horse.
- [62:49]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that was the guy that fell down the stairs. Yeah, north pushed him down the stairs. Yeah, he was like, I'm gonna get you, sucker. Yeah, well, I don't know if he pushed him or not, or.
- [62:58]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
What was it? Yeah, let's see. Let's say he didn't. Let's. Let's go with that.
- [63:01]
Dan Bernstein
No, I don't know. I don't know exactly what happened.
- [63:02]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I don't even. Let's go with that, please.
- [63:04]
Dan Bernstein
Everybody involved might have left the country by now. So. So they hand Terry this deep dish pizza head, and he ate it. No. And he puts it on his head. And again we come on a commercial, and Terry's like, well, yeah, they gave me this big faux beach. And let me tell you one thing about this. And the owner of the company is standing right there. Oh, God, I've told this story before. Don't you remember? I don't.
- [63:30]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
I tried to block those years out.
- [63:31]
Dan Bernstein
So Terry has. He goes, I'll tell you something. I'll tell you about this. If you want to look like the world's biggest douchebag, put this on your head. And you just see. You just see the. I'm. I'm standing there like this, and you.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
See crush this Guy's dreams, he just.
- [63:52]
Dan Bernstein
Drains of color as it shuffles out of there.
- [63:57]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Wow.
- [63:58]
Dan Bernstein
I mean, Terry wasn't wrong.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
No, he wasn't.
- [64:01]
Dan Bernstein
Dude, that guy could have given the station money to advertise the product.
- [64:05]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, Terry didn't care. He did.
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Dan Bernstein
You want to look like the world's biggest douchebag? Put this on your head.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Oh, Uncle Terry.
- [64:14]
Dan Bernstein
Thanks, man.
- [64:15]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
All right.
- [64:15]
Dan Bernstein
Thanks. Thanks. Thanks for that. Oh. See, I. And this whole time I thought you were going to end up derailing us.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, no, it's.
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Dan Bernstein
It's fine. Is it? You sure?
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Yeah, it's good. No, this is great.
- [64:29]
Dan Bernstein
Well, this is what the people love.
- [64:31]
Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
The people love the stories. And good.
- [64:34]
Dan Bernstein
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Unfiltered.
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Dan Bernstein
Unfiltered. On three. One, two.
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Co-host (possibly Mattabaticola)
Sports.