Chicago Bears vs Cleveland Browns | Soldier Field Showdown

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered

Episode: Chicago Bears vs Cleveland Browns | Soldier Field Showdown
Date: December 12, 2025
Host: Dan Bernstein
Co-Host: (Likely Matt Abbatacola, longtime producer; not explicitly named in transcript)
Guest: Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout, segment from "Forward Progress")

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Overview:

This episode of Dan Bernstein Unfiltered dives into the upcoming Chicago Bears vs. Cleveland Browns matchup at Soldier Field, exploring game strategy, player analysis (with a focus on rookie QB Shedeur Sanders), injury updates, and broader sports topics. The show also covers a viral controversy involving Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw’s appearance at a political event, listener interactions from "Friday Feedback Friday," and ends with the signature quirky "Top 10 Browns" list and weekend betting picks.

Tone: Sharp, irreverent, honest, with strong opinions and a mix of humor and listener engagement.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Weather & Game Context ([00:38–01:30])

• Opening Banter: Conversations about Chicago weather setting the tough scene for the Bears-Browns game.
  • “Enjoy your last day of summer-like warmth...it's going to be cold.” (Dan Bernstein, 00:38)
  • Quick mentions of Christmas coming, outdoor decorations, personal jokes about misunderstood emails and hatchets.

2. Bears vs Browns: Matchup Analysis

a) Game Predictions & Strategy ([01:57–04:01])

• Bernstein is bullish on the Bears’ chances:
  • “If they played 100 times, the Bears would win 80 to 85 times.” (Dan Bernstein, 01:57)
• Key strategic debate: Pressure vs coverage?
  • “The question of this game is pressure or coverage? ...Between pressure and coverage, I’d play coverage. Make him throw it, take it away.” (Dan Bernstein, ~02:15–02:55)
• Reference to previous guest (Matt Miller) for deeper analysis.

b) Special Guest: Matt Miller on Shedeur Sanders ([04:01–07:42])

• Sanders’ Strengths & Weaknesses:
  • “He’s a pocket rhythm passer. Don’t expect Lamar Jackson—that’s not his game....In the NFL you want to be moving toward the line of scrimmage; unless you have elite athleticism, you can’t get away fading back forever.”
    (Matt Miller, 04:05)
  • Growth: “He’s doing a really good job of that [timing play-action/quick reads]. Better than I anticipated, coming from Colorado where he never played on time.”
    (Matt Miller, 04:49)
• Defense Approach:
  • “If I’m a Bears defensive mind, I’m dropping to landmarks...making you execute in structure and timing.” (Dan Bernstein, 05:48)
  • “Sit and wait, cover-3, cover-4, try to get home with four and sit and wait. ...If it’s a cold, windy day, some passes might flutter.”
    (Matt Miller, 06:21)
  • “They’re not throwing the ball very deep—sit back and feast a little bit, especially your safeties and linebackers.”
    (Matt Miller, 06:40)

c) Bears Defensive Plan ([07:42–09:25])

• Focus on exploiting Cleveland’s offensive line injuries.
  • “They had four guards and one offensive tackle listed this week in their injury report...” (Co-host, 08:13)
  • “Teven Jenkins was listed again, he still has that issue where he just can’t finish a game.” (Co-host, 09:10)
  • “Great when healthy, solid NFL player...he’s just always hurt.” (Dan Bernstein, 09:15)

d) Injuries – Latest Updates ([12:57–13:22])

• Bears: Kyler Gordon, Travis Homer (did not practice), others limited.
• Browns’ injury report is “a lot more than normal.” (Co-host, 13:19)

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3. Off-Field Firestorm: Matt Shaw & Turning Point USA ([13:22–19:18])

• Cubs’ third baseman Matt Shaw is set to appear at the “America First 2025” Turning Point USA event:
  • “Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw is here, right in between Danica Patrick and Roger Stone...at the Turning Point USA America First 2025 Nazi-adjacent rally.” (Dan Bernstein, 16:03)
• Bernstein’s View:
  • Unfiltered criticism on the company and implications for Cubs brand.
  • “He is free to do this...Just don’t try to say this isn’t what this is. Just have the guts to stand up...and own it.” (Dan Bernstein, 17:26)
  • “Don’t minimize it. If you want to go to a gathering that tells me clearly that you are proud to be among hate mongers, homophobes, fascists, racists...do it—but own it.” (Dan Bernstein, 19:15)
  • Repeated: “Own it. That’s all I ask. Embrace it.” (Dan Bernstein, 18:21)
• Rant is a signature example of Bernstein’s “unfiltered” approach, merging sports with social commentary.

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4. Listener Feedback & Chicago Sports Nostalgia

Friday Feedback Friday ([22:59–34:01])

• Interactive, rapid-fire section with voicemails and emails:
  • Humorous debates: e.g., Big Bill on a horse vs. Luther Burden in a footrace ([23:06–25:07])
  • Charlie Sheen soundalike: Listener Jay, whose rant prompts host banter and a running joke ([25:55–30:01])
  • Nostalgic email stories—Ray Nitschke’s sweetness off the field contrasted to his on-field mean streak (Howard in Scottsdale, [31:04–33:59])
    • “Ray Nitschke...the meanest man ever on a football field. Just wanted an ice cream sundae.” (Email from Howard, 31:54)
  • Bears-Packers rivalry: Long-term optimism now with both teams having strong QBs/coaches ([33:59–36:15])

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5. Broader NCAA, NFL & Culture Topics

• Decline of Non-Playoff Bowls:
  • "Non-CFP bowls have become the NIT of football...made for mid-tier programs or those needing a vanity game." (Email from James in Racine, 37:05)
• Notre Dame/Big 12 Spat:
  • Clip: “I think Pete [Notre Dame AD]’s behavior has been egregious...totally out of bounds in his approach.” (Big 12 Commissioner, [38:12])
  • Bernstein: “Gloves are off!” ([39:07])

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6. Quirky Signature Segment: “Top 10 Browns of All Time” ([45:04–68:29])

• Format: Host and producer riff on famous (and not-so-famous) Browns (name, color, food, brands, figures).
• Sample (#1 spot):
  • James Brown (“the Godfather of Soul”),
  • Brown Sugar (song and food ingredient),
  • Charlie Brown, UPS, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Brown University, etc.
• Witty asides:
  • “Charlie Brown...our first working model of mental illness, of depression, of anxiety.” (Dan Bernstein, 64:42)
  • “The brown bag that we take for granted...don’t take them for granted.” (Dan Bernstein, 66:48)
• Deep dive on cultural meaning, plus cook’s perspective on brown sugar, jokes about fried chicken, etc.

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7. Final Buzzer: DBU Picks & Weekend Bets ([68:32–71:00])

• Bears -7.5 over Browns, Broncos +2, Rams -6: “Fun little parlay.” (Co-host, 70:10)
• Bernstein: Bulls props/crazy stats and “Shador Sanders unders” (under 180.5 passing yards, under 16.5 completions).
  • “That tells you how I feel...I’m getting two Shador Sanders unders.” (Dan Bernstein, 70:43)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Shedeur Sanders as a QB:
  “He’s a pocket rhythm passer...not elite arm strength. ...But his timing and rhythm, that’s what I’ve been encouraged by.” (Matt Miller, 04:05; 04:49)
• On game plan for Sanders:
  “Sit and wait...cover 3, cover 4, try to get home with four and sit and wait. ...Some passes might flutter.” (Matt Miller, 06:21)
• On Matt Shaw & Cubs at TPUSA:
  “Don’t try to say this isn’t what this is. Just have the guts to stand up when asked about it...be proud of it. Own it.” (Dan Bernstein, 18:21)
• Listener humor on Big Bill on a horse:
  “Luther Burden versus Big Bill on a horse – who wins?” (Adam in Atlanta, 24:01)
• On Ray Nitschke, Packers legend:
  “Ray Nitschke...the meanest man ever on a football field. Just wanted an ice cream sundae.” (Howard in Scottsdale email, 31:54)
• On “Top 10 Browns” riff:
  • “Charlie Brown—first working model of mental illness...” (Dan Bernstein, 64:42)
  • “Number one...brown sugar. ...A lot you can’t do without it.” (Dan Bernstein, 68:06)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Weather/Game Context & Banter – 00:38–01:30
• Bears vs. Browns: Game Analysis & Strategy – 01:57–09:25
• Matt Miller on Shedeur Sanders – 04:01–07:42; 06:21 (defensive strategy)
• Injury Reports – 12:57–13:22
• Matt Shaw/Turning Point USA Rant – 13:22–19:18
• Listener Feedback and Nostalgia – 22:59–36:15
• Decline of NCAA Bowl Games – 36:35–39:07
• Top 10 Browns of All Time – 45:04–68:29
• Final Betting Picks – 68:32–71:00

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Overall Takeaways

• Honest, engaged sports conversation: Emphasizes unfiltered takes, both on and off-field.
• Smart, funny cultural context: Bears/Browns preview blends into takes on politics, fandom, and pop culture.
• Listener-driven: Interactive with voicemails/emails, making for a lively community feel.
• Memorable for: The detailed game strategy discussion around Shedeur Sanders, the extended Matt Shaw political controversy rant, and the "Top Browns" segment’s unique blend of sports and cultural esoterica.

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For Chicago fans and sports podcast listeners, this episode is a sharp, irreverent ride through football strategy, locker room politics, and the eccentric universe of “Brown” in all its forms.

Transcript

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[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

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[Dan Bernstein]

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered is brought to you in partnership with my bookie and we are battening down the proverbial hatches. I don't have actual hatches, but we're making sure that as the weather comes in for this Bears game that enjoy your last day of summer, like warmth here for a little while. We can. Gonna be cold.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's gonna be cold. But next week, Dan, we're looking to be in the low 40s next week. That's golf weather. Yeah, no, we'll be good.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's. That's golf weather.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

We'll get through this. This weather's coming in for this Bears Browns game and we have a nice week next week. So get some more of that snow should be melted away. If you haven't done your lights or your decorations yet outside, you have a good opportunity this week before Christmas to get that done.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, good.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

And, oh, and by the way, I do have a bag of hatchets.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I have hatchets. I didn't. I didn't bring the hatches.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Misread your email.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I have hatchets. Sorry. I know. Sorry, dude.

[Dan Bernstein]

All it takes is a little bit of concentration. Just maybe looking at thing a second time.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I just don't. I don't read. I don't read very closely what you mean what you send me, so.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, as long as you have the stuff for Friday feedback Friday, it's all I really care about because I, you know, I sent you a volume of things. Was that for today? Yeah, that. Today is Friday feedback Friday.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Did you email me those?

[Dan Bernstein]

I did. So we need to have you get to work.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I just don't read emails. That's part of the problem.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm. I'm figuring that this, the Bears would beat this Browns team, this Bears team beats this Browns team. I figure if they played 100 times, the Bears would win 80. Between 80 and 85 times.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

And the packers probably play the Browns a hundred times again this season they beat him 95 times.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I'm just trying to make sure that this isn't one of those times. And I keep the question of this game is pressure or coverage? Pressure or coverage? Pressure and coverage. I think that I agree with our guest from forward Progress. The more I think about this and the more I think about the personnel they're going to have. I know everybody wants to be in attack mode and I know everybody wants to, to say, look, go get him, go get him, go get him. He's been bad against the blitz, but I figure on a day like this he's going to throw it to you a couple times.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

You would think he's going to, he.

[Dan Bernstein]

He'S going to throw it to you a couple of times, just confuse him, get the ball out of his hand, take it away and just, just avoid a loss. Get out of this game without it being a loss. I don't care about the spread, I don't care about any of that. Just take care of this business. So should we bring back what our guy, Matt Miller from ESPN at NFL draft scout, what he told us specifically about what he would do strategically against Shador Sanders?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, so there's, there's two things here from Matt Miller. The first part, he's talking about Shador Sanders as a quarterback because I think a lot, a lot of us do not know what he's like as a quarterback. We haven't watched Brown's game since he has, since he's been started, since he's been inserted as the starter. And then the second part is what he would do against Door Sanders. So this is Matt Miller. This was from our visit with him on Wednesday. And by the way, Matt Miller joins us every Wednesday on Ford Progress. How cool is that from here on out through the football season. So if you are not familiar with Matt or don't listen to Ford Progress regularly, you should start doing that. So this is Matt Miller from this past week or from this past two days ago.

[Dan Bernstein]

What do we know about what he's become as an NFL quarterback?

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

Yeah, I mean, honestly, he's a pocket rhythm passer. That's his game. And I think a lot of folks, they hear the last name and they think Deion Sanders son. And you're expecting Lamar Jackson. That's not his game. And at Colorado he was able to extend the pocket. He would drift in the pocket and he's kind of fading, fading, waiting for something to open up downfield. Not dissimilar from how we talked about Caleb Williams. Mahomes Aaron Rodgers, those guys. But not at that level of athleticism. He's doing it more based on timing. And they played a lot of backyard football at Colorado. So when the play breaks down, he's really good at finding that extra time. The problem is in the NFL, when you start to find that extra time, you start to go backward. And that's something a lot of young quarterbacks have to learn. And I still see that in his game is to buy that extra time. In the NFL, you want to be moving toward the line of scrimmage. Unless you're Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson, where you have that elite athleticism and you can fade and then you have the arm strength to make those throws. Shooter Sanders does not have elite arm strength. I've watched him throw in person. His arms good, not great. He's not really big. He's 6:1, around 212 pounds. But in the NFL, and I think where we've seen him grow each week, guys, the timing and the rhythm, which is something that they didn't play a lot of time in Colorado, that's what I've been encouraged by is getting into Kevin Stefanski's offense, which is a lot of play action. It is a lot of based on, you know, quick read, get the ball out, let your guys make place of space. He's doing a really good job of that. Better than I anticipated. Coming from Colorado, where you never played on time because you're basically calling your own plays because your dad's the head coach and it's like, all right, I'm going to find Travis Hunter, I'm going to find Jimmy Horn. We're going to play a little bit of backyard football to some degree. So to see him play with Instructure is really encouraging.

[Dan Bernstein]

So you're telling me as if I'm a Bears defensive mind here. If I'm Dennis Allen, I'm in zone. Go ahead. If you, if you love the off schedule stuff and you love the secondary play stuff, I am dropping to landmarks. I am keeping my eyes on you and I am making you be precise on a, on a difficult weather day, perhaps where players could be distracted or bothered or uncomfortable, I am making you execute and timing everything to whatever open spaces you can find.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

I'm sitting and waiting a lot. Like if you guys watch what the Texans did to the Chiefs, sit and wait, cover three, cover four, try to get home with four and sit and wait. Because especially with Shador, if it is going to be a cold, windy day and everybody's like, oh, he played at Colorado. The season's over by Thanksgiving. I was in Colorado on Thanksgiving. It wasn't cold. Okay, so let's throw out the narrative that he's played a lot of cold games. He has. This is a kid from. From Texas. If it's a cold, windy day, I do think you can look at a situation where you could sit, wait, some of those passes might flutter, especially if he is forced to move off his spot. What they do really well in Cleveland is, you know, underneath routes, breaking routes. They're going to get him comfortable early with some of those short passes. But I would think you could sit back and feast a little bit, especially your safeties and linebackers, because of those underneath routes. You know, they are not. They're not throwing the ball very deep in Cleveland this season. So I would. I would anticipate, you know, an umbrella of coverage that. Where you can just, you know, hopefully for Bears fans, kind of sit back and pick your spot close on the ball. Rookie quarterbacks, no matter how great they are, all struggle with that timing of. Everyone in the NFL runs a 4, 3 in the secondary. Basically, you know, that closing speed is crazy fast. And we see it from, you know, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts combined for seven interceptions on Sunday. Even the great ones sometimes underestimate the speed that these defensive backs play on the ball.

[Dan Bernstein]

And the more I've thought about it, even then, looking at stats and seeing how bad that Shador Sanders has been against the blitz, those numbers have been on the uptick in the small sample that we have. And if they want to get the ball out and run after the catch, I'm happy to swarm them, punch at the ball, and play this a little bit more conservatively than I otherwise would against a rookie.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. And hopefully the Bears can have an impact with their. Their front line, their front four, defensively speaking, because the.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

If you looked at the Browns injury report, they had four guards and one offensive tackle listed this week in their injury report. Okay, so there's a lot of. Lot of speculation as far as who's going to be able to play, who's going to go, how healthy they are. So hopefully you can take advantage of a weaker offensive line. A team that is averaging 3.8 yards per carry running the football now. They defend the ball really well as far as rushing is concerned. So they're one of the top yards per carry allowed. I think they're three or four in the league right now. They're in the middle of the pack as far as rushing yards allowed total only because they're trailing a lot in the second half and so teams run the ball more in the second half against their defense, but they stop the run. Well, that's why those, those stats kind of are contradictory to each other. Really good yards against the carry, but middle of the pack total yards because teams just run the ball because they're not scoring a lot. They haven't been scoring a lot all season long. So you have four guards listed. You have an offensive tackle, including our buddy Tevin Jenkins.

[Dan Bernstein]

Our buddy.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, our buddy Tevin Jenkins was listed again. He just, he still has that issue where he just, he can't finish a game.

[Dan Bernstein]

Great when healthy.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, great when healthy. Good.

[Dan Bernstein]

Solid NFL solid.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Player as a solid player as a guard really when, when healthy and he's just always hurt.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

But yeah, he just can't finish a game and that continues for him in the, in the Cleveland Browns organization. So four, four guards, one offense tackle listed this week on the injury report. So hopefully the front four like we talked about yesterday, Dan, can take advantage and have an impact on this game. Just rushing four and you will get.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

And looking at the Bears side of the injury report. Kyler Gordon, obviously Travis Homer did not practice yesterday. Roma Dunes A. Tyreek Stevenson, Alameda. Zakia is limited in practice and then Hippolyte and Jalen Johnson were full participation.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Both guys, so a lot, lot less. I mean, seriously, dude, did you see the Cleveland injury report? Look at that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, but you know a lot of these things.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, I know, I know. But that's. That's a lot.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, that's.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's a lot more than normal.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's a lot. Before we get to Friday feedback Friday, one other thing here. I don't know if you. There's something that, that posted this morning that just sucks. That just absolutely sucks to see if you're a Cubs fan, I calls it. You're gonna have to remember some things here too. But just it just turns your stomach and it's. It's just too bad for those of us who like rooting for the Cubs and generally like the Cubs. And I know that we've had all kinds of issues with the Odious and certainly beyond questionable political leanings of the ownership that have allowed the Cubs in Wrigley Field to be used for some anti democratic forces. How about. Did you see the list of featured speakers for what is being called America First 2025? This is the Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action gathering back in Phoenix, Arizona though it's, it's basically a, a light fascism festival.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I got through the list. I was starting to. Then I stopped at one certain individual, so didn't get past that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, you just, you know, tell me how you feel about some of this. The. This is your lineup of speakers and you say, well, why are you bringing this up, Bernstein? Here's why. The speakers at this thing and the logo is really weird. The logo is just this bizarre phallic. It's basically an American flag penis that they, they, they've made in their logo because it makes everybody feel good speaking at this. J.D. vance, Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr. Erica Kirk, Tulsi Gabbard, Megyn Kelly, Jesse Waters, Glenn Beck, Ben Shapiro, Greg Gutfield, Jack Posobiek. I'm not reading every name here, but Ken Paxton, Riley Gaines, Roger Stone, Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw. Cubs third baseman Matt Shaw is here, right in between Danica Patrick and Roger Stone. As a speaker at the turning point USA America first 2025 Nazi adjacent rally.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I saw Russell Brand and Rob Schneider.

[Dan Bernstein]

Russell Brand, right. Yep. They're on the list too. There's a big poster putting everybody out there. And right there is Matt Shaw, Cubs third baseman. Okay. All right. And we all make choices. And I assume this is with the Cubs blessing. Okay. And he's free to do this. He is free to if you want to hang out with Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr. And Megyn Kelly and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Congressman Andy Biggs and all of these absolutely execrable, vile people. If these are your people and this is the people with whom you are proud to associate. I think. What did he say about why he missed a game to go to Phoenix before? It was only because it was a personal request from Erica Kirk, as a dear friend. That's why he was supposed to be there.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. Because they talked weekly on the phone.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because they talked on the phone, that's why. Well, I think it was probably more than that. And I've got no problem with being allowed to. Nobody should prevent this.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. And I don't think he needs the Cubs permission. Doesn't need the Cubs Dec. 18, the 21st. He doesn't need to.

[Dan Bernstein]

This is. This is. And he is in a blue uniform on this picture. This is the Chicago Cubs brand. And if you're fine with already with the MAGA rallies that have been hosted at Wrigley Field, okay? I mean, that's a man that some people like vanilla, some people like chocolate. As Chuck Swirski would say, and if this is your yum, go ahead and have your yum. It is not my yum, but Matt Shaw is telling you something and I don't want to hear any mealy mouthed explanations when he's asked about it. I don't want him to say, oh, well, this is just, I'm just his friend or this is just because of my faith. Don't give me any of that bullshit. Own it. Own it. That's all I ask. Embrace it. Be proud of it. Matt Shaw, that's all I ask is don't try to say this isn't what we, what this is. Just have the guts to stand up when asked about it. And when asked about your appearance, standing shoulder to shoulder with Donald Trump Jr. And Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and Megyn Kelly and J.D. vance. Just be proud of it. Just say, these are my people. I feel strongly about what this represents. And don't lie, don't obfuscate. Be proud of it. Be proud that you're standing in between Russell Brand and Rob Schneider and, and Benny Johnson and Vivek Ramaswamy and Ben Carson and Tom Holman and Jack Posobiek.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. Why feel the need to minimize the connection relationship?

[Dan Bernstein]

Don't minimize it.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

But why, though?

[Dan Bernstein]

Why does someone shouldn't.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Why would someone minimize and, and that connection?

[Dan Bernstein]

And now if you want to go to a, a gathering that tells me clearly that you are proud to be among hate mongers, homophobes, fascists, racists, flag waving, proud racists, if this, if these are your people and this is your thing and you want to be at this proudly Nazi adjacent pep rally, go ahead, Go ahead, have a day, man. Have a week. Whatever blows your hair back. And if, and if you have been given permission to associate the Cubs Brand, all things Chicago Cubs with this, this lineup of horrible, horrible people all standing proudly on the wrong side of history, go ahead. Just don't pretend you're not. Don't try to ameliorate it. Don't try to soften it. Stick that chin out like it is in the picture, you and your cubby blue and own it. And that's fine. And then we're all good. We know where everybody stands. We know where everybody is we can all have our opinions and then we know who stands for what. And I see it right here, right here on this proud poster right under Ben Shapiro, Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, J.D. vance. Okay, just do, do this with pride. And then we can all make our own decisions and all feel our own ways. And there's all room for all of us to know how we feel. And with that, it's time for Friday Feedback. Friday Unfiltered. Let's do it. I'm gonna start with voice messages that have been sent and if we got some great news when it comes to the app. By the way, the app has been doing great. Thank you for jumping on this. We got a lot of people listening through the app now. The 312 sports app in the Apple App Store and Google Play, register your account. We got a little programming announcement here. You can win great prizes. Not just dinner for two at Smashburger or Giordano's or Chicago Firehouse Restaurant. We have added today tickets to see Guns N roses World Tour 2026 with special guest Public Enemy.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's quite the combo right there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, it is. It's July 29th at Credit Union One Amphitheater, Guns N Roses and Public Enemy. Your promo code is again bears. So that's what you do. Just enter the promo code bears on any reward for a chance to win. That is the new reward that has been added Guns N Roses in public enemy on July 29th. So go give that a shot. And the other things you can do in the app, you can leave voice messages. So what does that sound like? We've had a lot that came in, but you called out composer Chris, by the way, he left an apology.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I know. I listened to it.

[Dan Bernstein]

I heard it. Chris, we're not, we're not mad. Come on, man. You're a long time guy. And there's. It's been great.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It kept saying there was an error message, so I kept sending it and I've done it.

[Dan Bernstein]

We've all been there.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

We've all 17 times.

[Dan Bernstein]

Don't worry about it.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's funny.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was. It's really no big deal. We were just kind of screwing around. This. Ladies and gentlemen, Adam in Atlanta.

[Caller or Listener (Adam in Atlanta)]

Okay, you guys were talking about Big Bill versus Luther Burton, the wheelbarrow race, the race with the halibut, the race with Ben Johnson in the wheelbarrow, or Tyson Bagent getting all pumped up in the wheelbarrow. I say we get Big Bill on.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

A horse.

[Caller or Listener (Adam in Atlanta)]

And we see how fast he can run. The Strangles horse Route down in. I forgot what part of Illinois that is, Wayne. And see if the horse first of all can handle Big Bill, which probably, I don't know, maybe you need like suspension wires or stuff. But Big Bill's from Texas.

[Dan Bernstein]

He's from Waco.

[Caller or Listener (Adam in Atlanta)]

I bet he's been around horse farms. I bet he's seen his, you know, way around a horse. I, I want to see how fast he can go on a horse.

[Dan Bernstein]

In fact.

[Caller or Listener (Adam in Atlanta)]

Oh, I just got it. Luther Burden versus Big Bill on a horse who wins. See, See that? That's more of a level playing field, in my opinion. Hopefully the horse doesn't have strangles, but if it does have strangles, it'll go out with a bang. So, you know, hopefully not like killing a halibut or anything, but what do you guys think?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, they shot the horse in the parking lot at Jewel because it had strangles. Remember? Because that was everything that went down in Wayne, Illinois with the multiple escaped horses that had strangles or might have had strangles. And it went over to the jewels and they shot it. So Luther Burden not on a horse. Regular Luther Burden against Andrew Billings on a horse. That poor horse have to be a big ass horse. And I think the horse, no Luther Bird, would get out to a quick start.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

There's no shot that the horse with Andrew Billings on top beats Luther Bird.

[Dan Bernstein]

Depends how fast and big a horse.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It'S got to be a real big horse.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I don't know. A lot of people sent in feedback regarding that particular race and also said that the other note that we got a lot of when we were talking about our guy, anonymous zebra, the referee. And we were going to say, we said use the cat filter. If we were going to actually put our friend, the professional referee on here to be our referee expert and ever said, no idiots, it's a zebra. Use a zebra. Yeah, that's a.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That was a better thought.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. That's one thing. Like, yeah, you're right, we're wrong. Okay, here's one other voice message and this is we're all sort of doing this in like a live beta. So we're going to see how this goes and see if we can do more. And I'll just say this is from Jay.

[Caller or Listener (Jay)]

God, a Bata Cola is such a bastard. Breaking bad on a legend like that guy, the reporter whose name I've already forgotten from Green Bay. Jesus, Matty. The guy was a local hero and he's a legend in the Green Bay broadcasting community. This is a guy Whose name I already friggin forgot. Jesus. What's the matter with me and you? For sake.

[Dan Bernstein]

God damn it, Matt.

[Caller or Listener (Jay)]

How dare you. What the hell is his name? Oh, it's gonna drive me crazy here. Matt, you're a horrible human being because you're tearing down the greatness of that guy who sits next to Wayne Larrabee. Shit, I can't remember his name.

[Dan Bernstein]

Thanks, Jay. Did you hear him drop his pen?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. You know who that. That's. You know who that is?

[Dan Bernstein]

Or maybe he threw his pen.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Tell me that is not the. The voice double for Charlie Sheen. That dude sounds like Charlie Sheen.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, he does.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

100% he does.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's a great call.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That is Charlie Sheen.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's a great.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Thanks for listening, Chuck. You want to come on the show? You got the email. We'll have you on anytime.

[Dan Bernstein]

He does so much.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

You can come in studio. You can do it via video. Whatever you want, bro. It's all. It's all you.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

And by the way, Matt, congratulations. That game was worthy of being part.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Of the longest rivalry in the history of the NFL.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

How do you feel?

[Dan Bernstein]

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri Abe Simpson.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's his name.

[Dan Bernstein]

Before we get to your emails, I wanna let you know that we're getting down to nut cutting time when it comes to gift giving. And you don't wanna run out of time here. And you're gonna get through the weekend. You'll be like, oh, yeah, I was gonna do that on Friday. Listen, if you want a great personal gift, don't wait. You know that there's people in your family or friends or people with whom you've experienced something really cool of which you have pictures. Send an aura frame. It's a digital picture frame that allows you to send it prelo awesome digital photos that you can add a message, you can personalize it before it arrives. And there's a gift box included, every frame packaged in a premium gift box with no price tag. It's really cool. It's. It's super nice. And I've got the one. I'm going to set it up, I think this weekend. Or I might. I might re gift it to my parents. But don't say anything. So if they're listening. I don't know. I was thinking about it.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

So they're not listening.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. I don't know. When my dad does his mall walking, he listens.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right, maybe H, Bruce, but your mom's not listening. She's got better Things to do with her day.

[Dan Bernstein]

I hope so.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Got caramels and heaters.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. And when you download the app, listen, it's very, very easy. And when you go to like send a picture, your the little icon for your aura frame pops up so you can send it directly right there. It couldn't be easier. Real quick. This was Jay again. I just listened real. I'm not gonna play the whole thing, but listen. Tell me this is not Charlie Sheen.

[Caller or Listener (Jay)]

God, a bad a. Cole is such a bastard. Breaking bad on a legend like. Yeah, that guy, the reporter whose name I've already forgotten.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, come on.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's Charlie Sheen.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's. That's not bad. This is an email from Robert. This came through the app. Roberto, this is Bobarino. Maddie. Maddie, you did it. That packers reporter is Larry McCarron. Oh, Lord. He's the color commentator alongside Wayne Laravy. I will say, as a Bears fan living in Milwaukee, I've heard my fair share of him during Packer games. And within five minutes you can tell he's the biggest, most biased get off my lawn homer you will ever hear. I remember there was a Packer game a few years back in the middle of the Rogers era. They were playing Washington quarterback by Taylor Heinecke. Heinecke threw an incompletion and the first words out of McCarron's mouth were. And that's why Taylor Heinecke will never be as good as Aaron Rodgers. That's all you need to know about Larry the Rock McCarron. Yes, that's what they call him on the broadcast.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

How do you feel?

[Dan Bernstein]

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri. The packers generated a lot of feedback here. This is Howard in Scottsdale.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Hi, Howard.

[Dan Bernstein]

And you remember I was telling my story about meeting Ray Nitschke when I was covering Bears, packers, and sort of being starstruck and awestruck really, by. That's Ray Nitschke. He said. You discussing Ray Nitschke brought back memories of a day that I spent with him. My company invited Ray to appear at a trade show in Rosemont. And at the time, I was the low person on the corporate totem pole. I was asked by management to meet him at the gate at o'. Hare. He was coming in from Appleton on United Express. He was so personable with everyone who recognized him at o' Hare and at the Expo. And I want to share with you a story Ray shared with me when the trade show was over. He had a couple hours to kill, so he asked me, kid, where can we find a good ice cream sundae?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Isn't that adorable?

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

It is.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's not what I expected.

[Dan Bernstein]

How cute is that? Yep. That. He thought, where can we find some hookers and whiskey?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, I was waiting for it to take a bad turn.

[Dan Bernstein]

No. Ray Nitschke was the meanest man ever on a football field. Just wanted an ice cream sundae. Said growing up in Des Plaines, I suggested the Sugar bowl in downtown. Des Plaines was known for its sundaes. He said, great, kid. Let's go. The Sugar bowl was completely empty. We sat at the counter, we ordered our ice cream, and we talked. And I asked him how it felt growing up in Chicago and being a star at the U of I and ultimately becoming a Packer. And he said the moment when he learned to despise the Bears occurred his rookie preseason. The Bears and Packers scheduled scrimmages to prepare. And he said in a scrimmage, he hit Rick Caceres extremely hard. Rick Caceres, one of the great Bears running backs. And he suddenly heard cussing. He said, I can't recall the exact quote, but Ray was just flinging F bombs, becoming louder and louder as he was getting up. It was George Hallis cussing out Nitschke for his aggressiveness. And Halas started kicking him as he was getting up. Players and coaches had to separate them. Nitschke told me it was the moment he suddenly learned to hate Hallis and the Bears and knew he had a new home and and family with the green and gold. And he said, sadly, Ray Nitschke passed away at his condo in Tampa two weeks after that day. It was his last known public appearance at that expo. He said, as I dropped him off at o'. Hare. He challenged me to never forget a Vince Lombardi quote. No matter how challenging things in life can get. Run to win, he said. It's been a long time since I recall that unique experience. Thanks for prompting this as appropriate to celebrate the season and and the evolution of the Bears. I'm happy to have found forward progress in dbu. Keep up the great work. Thank you. No, thank you, Howard.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's a great story.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is that a great one?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, that's really good.

[Dan Bernstein]

I really enjoyed that.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Alice. Psycho Coach. I love it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right? Nick says after the perfunctory reflection of what the Bears could have done to win Sunday, I went against every trope and elementary bit of coach speak. I choose macro. We have embarked on a five year war against the Packers. Forgive me if my enthusiasm for the sport is partially stoked by the larger themes. Despite its prominent issues, Sunday's game in Lambeau set the stage for the next few years. At the moment, Caleb just missed Cole Comet in the end zone. No, I think just missed is not just. He didn't just miss. So let's agree. Nothing's guaranteed in football. Shit. Stan Humphries made a Super bowl as a starter, but the Bears and the packers are primed for battle because of two factors on both teams, quarterback and head coach. We can square the Bears opportunistic defense with the gradual improvement of Caleb from the start of the season. I'm confident trading the defense's plus 17 turnover differential and that eventual regression for how much better we can expect Williams to be. Pair that with the fact the Bears have a head coach who, unlike his predecessors, is a thoughtful adult, free of the cluelessness and unintentional charm that marked the various veep characters that previously wore the primary headset. And you have a tandem that makes the team more consistently competitive than any other iteration since the Ditka years. Well, I'd argue the Lovey Smith years are better than people remember. Obviously, the packers are no slouches. They have a coach with a third highest regular season win percentage among actives, a quarterback under 30 with a top five passer rating. The rivalry seems legit based on the players and coaches and not the dreaded tales of yore. It's a far cry from the crowd who hates the packers more than life itself as they shuffle red cellophane wrapped cinnamon candies in their wool trousers. Both teams are good and should be good for a while. It's okay to be excited about Bears. Packers like really excited and for a while said Apologies for going full Frank from Oak park on this. No, Nick, good. That, that. You don't have to apologize for any of that. Absolutely not. That's. That's the cool thing. Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

If you're looking at the head coaches of the Chicago Bears during the super bowl era, Lovey Smith, your second best coach, no doubt. It's not even a question.

[Dan Bernstein]

We also had talked this week about the decline, the obvious decline of the non playoff bowl system in college football and all of the obvious reasons why we all seem to agree. We know we're at the start of everything going away. Not to mention that somehow Cheez Its wants to put its name on the Citrus bowl and make it the Cheez its Citrus Bowl.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Well, did you, did you see any of the comments about that? About our reaction to that? That people are explaining to us that it's not citrus flavored Cheez Its?

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, oh, yes. But no, I understand that.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, we knew it's the Citrus Bowl. Cheez Its sponsors the Citrus Bowl. But putting those together, the Cheez Its Citrus bowl, it just sounds gross.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I know. They're not creating Cheez Its flavors.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

We both knew that.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's just bad branding.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Thank you for the emails and the comments or wherever it came through, but we knew that there aren't citrus flavored cheeses.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's just bad branding. James in Racine says seeing Notre Dame and Rutgers deciding not to play in one of these non CFP games for a measly 2 to 4 million dollars makes sense. These programs each have a large TV deal. In the case of Notre Dame, it's not like they're starving for cash. Why complicate a soon to be open transfer portal with preparing for a bowl game that's just a vanity project? Given how many players opt out to enter the portal or prep for the combine, it's just a nuisance. These big programs that are in the middle of the road or rebuilding on the fly as college football seems to be for everyone are just now better served. Stay home, keep their current players happy and engaged, focus on their diamonds and the rough to be found in the portal until college football realizes these kids should be seen as university employees and will collectively bargain with them as such. Non CFP bowls have become the nit of football. They're made for mid tier programs or those needing a vanity game in order to bilk their own donors for a few more dollars.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

You know, I wanted to play something for you. I'll just do it now. It's the Big 12 commissioner Brett Yorman. He's talking about Notre Dame.

[Brett Yorman (Big 12 Commissioner)]

I will say this, and I'm a. And I'm a little outspoken about it. I don't like how Notre Dame's reacted to it. So I think. I said I think Pete's his. His behavior has been egregious. It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips when they saved Notre Dame during COVID We all knew. And it was very transparent. Hunter was very transparent about it. The chair that as Notre Dame and Miami got closer together, head to head would be a factor. Okay. BYU lost. They became closer together. Head to head made a difference in that. In that decision. So I think he is totally out of bounds in his approach. And he was in the room. I'd tell him the same thing.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Damn. Yeah. That's Big 12 commissioner Brett Yorman.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is it your me, Your mark?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Is it your mark?

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. It's great. Oh, yeah.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

No, you're right. Your mark.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it's your mark.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Your mark.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yep. Yeah, that's.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

He's your mark.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's great.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's Brett.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's great.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I just know him as Brett. That's why I didn't notice.

[Dan Bernstein]

Gloves are off. Gloves are off.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Egregious behavior.

[Dan Bernstein]

I want to close out Friday Feedback Friday with this from Dr. J. Boys, I've been enjoying the deep dives into all things Pavia brothers. My initial response when you first mentioned it a week or two back was to immediately think of the Sanzini brothers. They have nothing to do with the Pavia brothers, aside from me imagining the Pavia brothers as the Sanzini brothers. Who were the Sanzini brothers, you may ask? Well, following the demise of the original Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa reimagined the band in 1970, this time featuring, among others, Mark Volman and Howard Kaelin, formerly of the Turtles. You know the Turtles so happy together. Said due to legal issues, they could not use their real names, so they appeared with Zappa as the Fluorescent Leech and Eddie, respectively. They appeared on several Zappa mothers albums, including Chunga's Revenge, 200 Motels, just another band from LA and Fillmore, 1971 in live performances, sometimes during a suite of Concentration Moon, but it could show up anywhere in a set. The band would temporarily turn into the Sanzini Brothers, with Mark introducing his brothers Adolph, Rudolph, Piss off and Jack off as as the Sanzini Brothers. The band would then perform such magical acts as the Burning Hoop Trick, or more famously, what they called the Sodomy Trick. What that meant on stage. I'm not exactly sure, though. Some signs point to a stuffed penguin named Emil and an oversized drumstick being involved. Thankfully, we do have surviving audio of some of these events, and they consist of a lot of pained grunting. And he sends a YouTube link. So what does this have to do with the Pavia brothers? Well, nothing, but it does demonstrate my demented appreciation for the oddities of Frank Zappa. And typing this up delayed my grading of papers, so it was worth it.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Thanks, Dr. J. I think we need to get the Pavia brothers. Not Diego. He doesn't need to be involved. And not Nicola, but the Jokic brothers and the Pavia brothers together. Have you seen those two monsters?

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, they're awesome. The Yokich. They are the Yokich.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Terrifying. Well, the one terrifying looking. They look like they would destroy you with one hand.

[Dan Bernstein]

They look photoshopped.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's not. It's not human.

[Dan Bernstein]

They look photoshopped.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

But I want those two with the drunken Pavia brothers together.

[Dan Bernstein]

I want those two guarding the drunken Pavia brothers.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Just hanging out together.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I mean, can you imagine what they would. What they would do with those two guys as their protection?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, did they drink too?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

They're frightening. They are frightening looking.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Yeah. Like you. If you saw. If you walked across the street on a dark night and that guy's standing like where you're. You're turn. You're. You're changing your course. You're moving away or even like if.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

We'Re walking like opposite directions towards each other. Yeah. Like not making eyes. No, you're like. You're not even.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, no, no, you're moving over. You give that man a wide berth.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yes, he is. They are. They are terrifying.

[Dan Bernstein]

He looks like an ogre, doesn't he?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's frightening. But yeah, you put those. You get those four together. That's quite the night out.

[Dan Bernstein]

And that is Friday Feedback Friday on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. If you have not prepared your home properly to hold its temperature, whether the winter days that are still to come is technically. You know, we haven't even really started winter yet. Even though it's going to be single digits.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. It's almost spring. According to you the other day.

[Dan Bernstein]

It is. Yeah, it is. The days are right around the corner. It is.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, I know.

[Dan Bernstein]

The days are soon getting longer.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Golfing next week, fishing.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's 42. I'll be at Robert Black Golfing. Russ Armstrong is the owner of Chicago Window Guys, and Russ is going to come to your house to give you the Estimate and then you're going to learn about. You'll learn everything you want to know about windows because Russ can't wait to explain low emissivity and the polymerized spacer on the window in between the panes that is better than a metal one because it doesn't rust. And all the double hung things because he custom makes the windows at his factory here in Chicago. And you'll say, well, this other guy offered me this and this other guy offered me this. Well, make sure that you tell Russ all that because he'll match or beat anything. Price match, guarantee, price match, guarantee. And his windows are better anyway. So don't fall for these. The buy one, get one free sales gimmicks. Call Russ, 847-302-9171. He's got five star [e-mail] and here's what's important too. When you are getting quotes, these other companies say, hey, do you know who's putting in my windows? Who's installing? They won't know because they're using any number of third party contracted labor that they don't know who's doing it. Russ does.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. Then the Jokic brothers show up.

[Dan Bernstein]

Jokic brothers show up and the Pavia brothers show up. Then you don't know what's gonna happen.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

The liquor cabinet's empty.

[Dan Bernstein]

Technically, with somebody else, it's possible. It's not possible with Russ because Russ has his own crew and they do all his installations. So he knows everybody who's in and around your house. There's also a lifetime guarantee with parts and labor. So if your windows are old or cracked or falling apart, just plain broken. Russicagowindow guys has you covered. New windows matter. 847-302-9171 chicagowindowguys.com Is it that time?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It is that time.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, hold on, let me get my list. I, Zoe was making fun of me yesterday because I was sitting.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's weird.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sitting at this. I had a clipboard and I'm making notes. And she goes, why do you have your crossword clipboard out but you're not doing a crossword? I said, because I'm doing the top 10 Browns. And she's rolling her eyes. She's like, what are you. What are you talking about? And I tried to explain it to her and she's like, you know what? I'm not interested. And she put her earbuds in and she walked away. That's the reaction that I get in my own home. But I Was interested because this took me a long time to do. See, I don't want you to read it, but I have a lot of stuff on here. We always do the top 10 of the Bears upcoming opponent and we start with the committee. You're in charge of the committee.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I have the committee. They actually left. They were on the way out of the house this morning when I was leaving for the trade.

[Dan Bernstein]

The whole committee was leaving.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, yeah, no, they were going for disbanding. They do breakfast on Fridays.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, nice.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, they leave the house harbor.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I don't have to cook for them.

[Dan Bernstein]

So.

[VRBO Announcer]

Okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right, so I'm going to get through mine quickly here. My top 10. But I have, I have a lot of honorable mentions to get through too. So I'm going to just going to breeze right through these so we can get to your list first. I want to just take a moment to say give a special mention and shout out to Nicole Brown Simpson and I hope that her unsolved murder gets solved. I know it's, you know, it's, it's been enough time already. So hopefully we can get that, get that solved. So the Brown family, you know, is out there for you. Hopefully it gets solved soon. All right, we start with animal mention for author Dan Brown. He did the Robert Langdon series, made, you know, Tom Hanks famous.

[Dan Bernstein]

He was unknown before I had him as underneath. Honorable mention. Have you under consideration, have you seen.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Any of those movies that Tom Hanks did?

[Dan Bernstein]

No, I read the Da Vinci Code.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Okay, but you didn't see the movies themselves.

[Dan Bernstein]

But the book's hilarious.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Hilarious. Yes. Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right. So Dan Brown gets a mention if.

[Dan Bernstein]

You read it as a comedy. It's great.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Okay, noted. Next mention here, honorable mention, downtown Julie Brown from mtv. And if you're of our age, similar ages, I remember very distinctly 1981 when MTV came on the air. We actually went to my uncle's house because he was the only member of our family that had cable.

[Dan Bernstein]

You know, it's going off the air.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's going off the air now. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Downtown Julie Brown still on Sirius xm.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

She still is. Yes. She, she wasn't one of the original 80. I think she late late 80s. She jumped in. But a mention for Downtown Julie Brown.

[Dan Bernstein]

Let me just also add to. I had both Julie's Brown. I had. There is the Julie Brown who was a like a satire songstress, comedian, musician. So I wrote down both Julie Browns.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right. And then American basketball coach Larry Brown gets a mention.

[Dan Bernstein]

I had Larry alongside two NFL Larry Brown. Larry's Brown. Okay, so there were three Larry Browns.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Okay, you want to mention those two now?

[Dan Bernstein]

Both Larry Brown and Larry Brown from football.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

One was a Super bowl mvp. And I covered Steelers.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. No, Cowboys.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

They beat Cowboys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they beat.

[Dan Bernstein]

He intercepted Neil o'. Donnell. He didn't play particularly well. He won the mvp. I was at the MVP press conference the next morning. Everybody was either still drunk or hungover.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, wow. Yeah. All right, another mention here. One of my favorite Chicago Bears of all time, Mike Brown. So he gets a mention. Actor Clancy Brown.

[Dan Bernstein]

I had him on my list as well. Clancy Brown, you know, as Byron Hadley from Shawshank Redemption and the voice of Mr. Kra from SpongeBob.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right, here's one that gets a real special honorable mention is actor Brian Brown, Australian actor. He was in the movie Cocktail.

[Dan Bernstein]

And he was in fx.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

He was. Cocktail, of course, starred Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise, the actor in the greatest American film ever, Top Gun. It's Brian Brown, Illinois, Mr. Basketball, 2003. Shannon Brown gets a mention. And one of my favorite country bands, the Zak Brown Band and their album Uncaged. One of my favorite country albums ever. So Zach Brown band gets a mention.

[Dan Bernstein]

Went to his concert at Wrigley.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

There you go. All right, now, my top 10 list. The top 10 Browns of all time, starting at number 10, a Whitney Brown, Emmy Award winner, SNL skit writer and performer, 1985 to 1991. A Whitney Brown. Always good with the news. Always loved a Whitney Brown.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yep. One of the smarter people.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

One of the smarter. Yeah. Stage performers and writers. Number nine, Margaret Molly Brown. The unsinkable Molly Brown, of course, survived. Survived the sinking of the Titanic. She was a American socialite, philanthropist, and of course survived the Titanic sinking, which is. That's a pretty good feat if you can do it. Not everyone did.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, some Billy Zane pushed some people out of the lifeboats.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. And then Jack got. He got. He got dumped off the floating door by Rose and she just had to watch him die, even though she loved him.

[Dan Bernstein]

But no, I think she pushed him.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, she didn't Love him. Number eight on the top 10, Browns, UPS. What can Brown do for you? We've all used UPS. Very significant in package delivery for our lives. And maybe you've used a UPS store so they get a special men trying.

[Dan Bernstein]

To romanticize the idea of United Parcel Service.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

What can Brown do for you?

[Dan Bernstein]

That's an important to us. Very important to us.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Number seven on the list, Brown Eyed Girl, the song by Van Morrison. One of the most played songs ever. Over 10 million radio plays. Brown Eyed Girl, number six, Helen Gurley Brown. Author, publisher, businesswoman, Cosmo, editor in Chief for 32 years.

[Dan Bernstein]

One of my favorite descriptions. My sister sent this to me, and I think it was Spy magazine at the time, the late lamented Spy magazine that described the then, like, nonagenarian Helen Gurley Brown as, quote, a tangle of bone and hair.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, boy.

[Dan Bernstein]

Unquote.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's not too far off. But number six on the list. Helen Gurley Brown, number five. One of my favorite guys on Food Network, Alton Brown. He, of course, good eats alone. For 16 years, he was a food presenter. Changed the way we talked about food as a cinematographer, the way that we viewed, you know, viewing TV shows about food. I always remember the first time I saw him have a camera, like, stationed inside an oven. You know, he'd open the oven door and there was, you know, and it was just. It was great the way he presented and talked about food. So he's number five on our list.

[Dan Bernstein]

People find him annoyingly fastidious and pedantic.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I love it.

[Dan Bernstein]

But as somebody who is annoyingly fastidious and pedantic, often he's in a pie. I loved how Alton Brown on a cooking network raised the level of intellect and always works at the highest level of his intelligence.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Also really good. His production values with the way the camera moves and. And I just think he's. He's good at it. I've always liked him.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Always liked him. So number five in the list. Alton Brown, number four. Jackson Brown. Sold over 30 million albums in the U.S. Dr. My Eyes, the Pretender, Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby. Yeah, a little.

[Dan Bernstein]

Little too Wife. Beatty. I should have been canceled for beating up Daryl Hannah. I don't know why he wasn't.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, all right. Well noted.

[Dan Bernstein]

I've got a lot of that in here. I've got a lot of. Yeah, the committee has got some judgments to make because it's not. I'm completely hypocritical on that.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because there's somebody who's way at the top of my list who I let a lot of that slide, I think.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right. Jackson Brown, number four.

[Dan Bernstein]

Number three.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

John Brown. Radical, radical American abolitionist. Led the raid on Harpers Ferry. Thought the way to fight against slavery was through violence.

[Dan Bernstein]

My number five.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Number five. So he was number three on the committee's list. John Brown, number two. Here for you, Dan.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sometime I made my break out in a cold sweat.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

That's not him.

[Dan Bernstein]

This is Eddie Murphy.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

So the SNL skit, Eddie Murphy doing James Brown, the hot tub celebrity party. Number two on the list. Eddie Murphy's impression of James Brown. Celebrity hot tub parties. We love that.

[Dan Bernstein]

But that's my number two also. James Brown.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Number one in our list. James Brown, the Godfather of soul.

[Dan Bernstein]

The.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Progenitor of funk music. He is the man. James Brown number one. Brown number one.

[Dan Bernstein]

Wow. So we got a lot of work to do here. Let me give you first names under consideration that have not been mentioned, that were not. Did not make the honorable mention. These are just names under consideration.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

So these are under consideration that you have not mentioned.

[Dan Bernstein]

You've mentioned a lot of them.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sweet Georgia Brown. I have all of the Bobby Browns. I have singer Bobby Brown. I have the cosmetic and fashion giant Bobby Brown. And Millie, Bobby Brown, the famous actor from Stranger Things who's married to John Bon Jovi's kid.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

They actually changed her name or is changing it. She's changing her lesson.

[Dan Bernstein]

Bon Jovi. Oh, okay.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

So she'll be Bon Jovi, whatever. What?

[Dan Bernstein]

The actual Bon Jovi.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

But that's not the.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's not his real name. It's B o N. No, it's pronounced differently.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

His actual real name is pronounced differently than Bongiovi. Yeah, than Bon Jovi.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Matt Miller (ESPN NFL Draft Scout)]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right. Bon Jovi.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, that's right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sherrod Brown, the Ohio senator. Sherrod Brown, Ohio senator and a. A, A hall of famer, Big boy table at the Reggie Cleveland all stars of white guys with black names. Sherrod Brown, believe it or not, is a white man and a senator who I believe is running for office again in the NFL with A.J. brown, Antonio Brown, NBA, among others. The ones that I consider, Jaylen Brown and Kwame Brown. Let's not forget one of the original blaxploitation films, Foxy Brown, which was probably the inspiration for another consideration, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown starring Pam Grier. Also the TV show considered important at the time as a feminist icon. Even though I don't really think she was. I think she was more sort of re. Establishing normalcy than she was promoting actual feminism. That's Murphy Brown. And from the song Winter Wonderland, Parson Brown. And pretend that he is Parson Brown. Those were some names under consideration. Now, honorable mentions. I went through all of the all time rosters of the Chicago sports teams for who would be worth mentioning as honorable mention. So for the White Sox, nobody. For the Blackhawks, nobody. For the Bulls, those making the cut, Randy Brown and Mike Brown, rugged rebounder. The other Mike Brown. On the Cubs, current hurler Ben Brown. The famous for being infamous Brandt Brown. Oh, no.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Drop the ball.

[Dan Bernstein]

He dropped the ball. And the greatest Cub of all time named Brown, Mordecai Three Finger Brown. No, he did not say. He might have said that when he lost his fingers. That's an actual recording. This is what Mordecai Brown sounded like when he lost two of his fingers. That hurts. And among the bears, there's Browns out the wazoo. But I am including on the list just because current bear, Britton Brown and former Bears Reuben Brown, Mike Brown and Alex Brown. Yep, can't forget them. So also honorable mention, the manager of the Cleveland baseball team in major League, Lou Brown.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Nice.

[Dan Bernstein]

You may run like Babe, run like Hayes, but you hit like shit. Wow. I've got H. Rap Brown, activist and black Panther. Also honorable mention, even though he was a Cleveland Brown. Jim Brown. And I wanted to put on the list one of the top Lake Michigan game fish, the brown trout.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

How now, brown trout.

[Dan Bernstein]

I've only caught one. It's on my list of species that I have caught. But the brown trout, a popular and sometimes frequently caught game fish in Lake Michigan. Now, have you ever caught a shark? No.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

How about an octopus?

[Dan Bernstein]

No. I don't do a lot of saltwater. Okay, so maybe someday. But I don't want to catch a shark.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Or a marlin.

[Dan Bernstein]

I like. I've caught sailfish, but not marlin. I like octopus. What?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

A stingray.

[Dan Bernstein]

I like sharks.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Or a giant squid or a blue whale.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, now my top 10, the top 10 Browns of all time. Number 10, Brown's Chicken. There was one back when I was growing up at the corner of Route 20 of Route 22, half day road and 41.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Now I'm just picturing you eating chicken again.

[Dan Bernstein]

We didn't really have a lot, and I think I learned to love fried chicken because it was also a really good Browns. And now the quality control's all over the place because they've been owned by private equity the same as it was. But I loved hearing, hey, what's for dinner tonight? Or we gotta go to soccer. We're picking up Brown's chicken on the way home. And that meant the mushrooms and livers and gizzards, which my dad obviously loves, and that Brown's. And then of course, they had the Browns Chicken Massacre. And there's no Gouda. No, that was bad. That was the Palatine one. And then they made it Brown's chicken and pasta, which my friends and I all called Brown's Chicken and murder. And then we could understand why having seven people, whatever it was, murdered and stuffed into the cooler at the Browns chicken was not good for business. So that's number 10. Number nine, Brown University. Okay? The Ivy League school with a really interesting list of famous alumni. And I just sort of cherry picked some of the names here. There's you know like Bobby Jindal and Maggie Hassan, John D. Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Julie Bowen, Emma Watson, Daveed Diggs, Chris Berman.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Not Randy Watson.

[Dan Bernstein]

Not Randy Watson. Emma Watson, Emma Watson, Daveed Diggs, Chris Berman and Joe Paterno, all graduates of Brown University. And Brown University is a place where we got kicked out of the Collegiate Broadcasters Conference for. Well, we decided to do a bunch of tequila shots before one day and that's when Ted Turner was the keynote speaker. And we got kicked out because Paul Levinson kept. Well, he got in line to ask a question and he was asking that follow ups about competitive sailing because of the America's Cup. And Ted's like, I'll take one more question and then we're going to be done here. And they asked us to leave and then it was fine with us. So Brown University number nine. Number eight, Cleveland Brown from Family Guy.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, nice.

[Dan Bernstein]

He didn't have a last name, but they decided to make a joke about Cleveland Browns and Cleveland Brown. But Cleveland Brown, who has become more of a character over time, he's been voiced by three different actors and he had a short lived spinoff, the Cleveland show that didn't work. It might have been even like just, just one show and that's it. But that's the show Family Guy that just is on forever for the rest of our lives. The great thing, it's always there for you.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

You need something if you want it.

[Dan Bernstein]

You need something to watch, you want to eat your late dinner, whatever it is, it's always there for you. So Cleveland Brown, number 8. Number number 7. 2. Leroy Browns 2.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Was it bad Bad?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, one of them is bad, bad Leroy Brown. Jim Croce says he was inspired by a friend that he met when he was in the army at Fort Dix, New Jersey. That genuinely bad dude who he saw eventually led away in handcuffs. But he said that that was his bad, bad Leroy Brown from the south side of Chicago. We should say that's Chicago's own, the fictional character. The other Leroy Brown.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

WGN segment.

[Dan Bernstein]

A person you should know.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Chicago's very own. I bet Bad, bad Le.

[Dan Bernstein]

I bet you did not know the real first name of child detective Encyclopedia Brown. His actual given name is Leroy did not know that. So he's the other Leroy Brown. Leroy Encyclopedia Brown. And no joke, those books, very important to me.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

And my favorites, I think as a kid I read everything that was available up through 1978 or whenever I stopped reading them. Donald J. Sobel wrote those books. And I would always try to figure things out before I turned to the end. It was always in italics. How did Encyclopedia Brown know? And I would try to solve those things. So I worked on my critical thinking, detective skills alongside that Leroy Brown. So Those are number seven. I've got another team at number six. Doc Brown and Dr. Brown, both Doctors Brown. Emmett Doc Brown from Back to the Future. You know him as played by Christopher Lloyd. I just, I'm doing this to give you the list of the other actors considered for the role. You ready? We know it was Christopher Lloyd who made Doc Brown famous. The other actors considered were Jeff Goldblum, John Lithgow, Dudley Moore, Ron Silver, Robin Williams, John Cleese, Mandy Patinkin, Gene Hackman, James woods, and Mark Mothersbaugh, the co founder of Devo, who also became a very successful and wealthy film composer. He composed Everything is Awesome for the Lego Movie and many others.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Well, they got that casting, right? Yeah, they do that.

[Dan Bernstein]

And it was Jeff Goldblum who was the second choice. Yeah. And he was beaten out by Chris.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Jeff Goldblum would have been fine. He would have been fine.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. I don't know if he's outwardly crazy enough.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, I think he, I think he would have been. He can, he seems, he's like a theater guy. He can do that.

[Dan Bernstein]

And who's the other Dr. Brown? Dr. Brown Soda Man. You can't go to a real delicatessen.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Without a Brown can of soda.

[Dan Bernstein]

You're having your, your Dr. Brown's Cream Soda or root beer or if you, if you really want to keep it real, the celery tonic that they would call celery. Yes, it's a celery flavored soda. But nothing washes down a pastrami sandwich with good mustard on it like a Dr. Brown's cell Ray tonic that was popularized at the New York Jewish delis because Dr. Brown's sodas were kosher before some others were. And that's why it sort of got popular as a, as a deli drink. So the doctors Brown are number six. John Brown, the radical abolitionist, number five. And one thing I really liked about what he said and was this. He also said that said that right.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

On the way to Harpers Ferry.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right before they hanged him. But what he said was he believed that striking the death blow to slavery was his sacred Christian obligation. He believed that working to free the enslaved was following Christian ethics, including the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence, which states that all men are created equal. He said those principles meant the same thing. So he believed in what? If you want to call him a domestic terrorist, that's probably apt considering the actual laws of the time. But abolitionist John Brown, number five. Number four, Charlie Brown, who we can now understand was our first working model of mental illness, of depression, of anxiety and everything that Charles Schulz himself faced. All of whatever issues Charles Schulz had this melancholy and the mood swings, going from wild optimism to having hopes dashed that as much as we sort of laughed at Charlie Brown and with Charlie Brown, he has been seen and therapists have written about this as really when nobody used terms like this and talked about it. When you do go back and read Peanuts with through the lens, through the prism of anxiety and depression, Charlie Brown becomes a much deeper and more interesting and much sadder character. Number three, the ubiquitous brown bag that we take for granted. Like a grocery bag or a brown lunch bag and we refer to as brown bagging it. Or maybe you've got a 40 of steel reserve that you don't want people to know is a 40 of steel reserve, even though we know it is. Maybe it's just a 24 can of steel reserve, but that the brown bags that we don't, don't take them for granted. Here's to brown bags that we use in everyday life.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

We always had king cobra.

[Dan Bernstein]

I just didn't have to hide it.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Me and Jay, we had King cobra.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh no. I would drink my king cobra. My $16 ounce king cobras at the hideout Hideaway. I didn't have to cover those up. Number two, James Brown. And yes, completely problematic and probably a multiple time assailant rapist kidnapper. Yes, I understand all of that. And number one in two respects, my number one Brown of all time, Brown Sugar. The song is great. The song also should be canceled. It is kind of half canceled because of its use of slavery imagery. And I mean there's the stuff in that. It just doesn't feel okay. And I don't think Mick Jagger finds it okay anymore either. He's talked about the appropriation of some of it. And I mean the actual line, hear him whip the women just around men. It's not okay. Still, yes, it's a great rock and roll song, but we know now it's probably not okay, but actual brown sugar.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Light brown sugar, dark brown sugar, whatever it takes. Making a barbecue sauce, there's a lot.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's a lot you can't do without it. And there are the caramelization properties. It's a sucrose that does contain either natural molasses or has molasses added. But we wouldn't have many of the cookies, the baked goods that we have, the barbecue sauces, the dry rubs, all that without the number one brown, brown sugar.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

All right, nicely done.

[Dan Bernstein]

There it is. That is going to do it. And before we do, DBU picks know that December doesn't have to be the most expensive month of the year. If you are betting with my bookie, 12 Days of Christmas is nearly here. That's daily offers, they're dropping them back to back across the casino. And sports, that's bet and gets. That's profit boost, that's free spins, that's surprise drops. If you are a social user or a telegram user, there's all kinds of things going on in December. All the bowls are betting opportunities, all the NFL games, all the college hoops are chances for you to cash in. So when you're going to do this, go to my bookie. Don't do anything without punching in our code. DBU. You get your first bet covered up to $500. So get registered, make your deposit, punch in DBU. And if you go big and you miss on the first bet, then you've got your bet back, bonus token and you can run it back up to 500 bucks. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime, only with my bookie. DBU picks are presented by my bookie and we've got a lot going on. Bulls back in action tonight and Bears football.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah. So I'm going to do a three team parlay for you here this weekend. And I'm just going to have some fun with this because I'm going to keep eyes on all three of these games. Obviously, we start with the Bears minus seven and a half. We're going to look next at the packers at Denver. We're taking the Broncos at home, top of their division, getting two points. We'll take the Denver Broncos plus two and the Rams hosting the Detroit Lions minus six. So we're going Bears minus seven and a half. Denver plus two, the Rams minus six. We're putting all three of those together for a little fun parlay to watch for this weekend.

[Dan Bernstein]

That is a very fun Bears fan parlay. I have a couple of things for you for the Bulls game tonight. Bulls at Charlotte Betting on a couple of rookies here on Charlotte. Ryan, Kolk, Brenner, two or more blocked shots tonight and Con Knipple. Two or more steals. The Bulls have get a lot of shots blocked and they kick the ball all over the place.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Not the Vikings defensive end.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, not Andrew Van Ginkel. Oh, who's this Con knipple?

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Oh, Con Knipple.

[Dan Bernstein]

Con canipple. Two or more steals. Ryan Kalkburn.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

I had a con knipple once. Went to the doctor.

[Dan Bernstein]

Two or more blocks. And for the Bears game, this tells you how I feel. I'm getting two Shador Sanders unders. I am betting Shador Sanders under the 180.5 passing yards.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

It's good call.

[Dan Bernstein]

Under under 180.5. And I'm betting Shador Sanders under 16 and a half completions. So 16 or fewer completions, 180 or fewer yards for Shador Sanders. Those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie bet on anything, anywhere, any time.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

Yeah, I think the over under in my bookie was 39 for that bears Browns game. But yeah, I didn't want to do anything with that. I just want to. I want to. I'm going to watch all three of those games very closely.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm very excited about it. Good. Well, that's another fun Friday for us here. This has been Dan Bernstein Unfiltered, brought to you in partnership with my book.

[Co-host or Producer (possibly a sports analyst)]

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