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Dan Bernstein
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How about them Bulls? How about a little bit of luck?
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It's okay. You're allowed to be lucky every once in a while. And bumping into the top four, I just kind of saw there were the wrong logo in that man's hand and I said, oh, oh, oh. And Tony ku, Coach man. Cool. Didn't. Didn't even celebrate. Didn't fist pump, didn't go crazy. All it was at the Bulls table, a little bit of a fist bump across the table. I'm not even sure I know everybody sitting there right now. That's what's weird is they don't have a front office.
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Yeah, they got one guy.
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There's one guy there. So before we start debating, like, who are they going?
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We have no idea who they are.
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They don't have any idea right now. There's a ton of work that needs to be done before they really know who they're going to zero in on. And I got to be really clear about something because we had a huge viewership of the organizations Win Championships podcast live edition yesterday. I know for whatever reason that the I and this is starting because this is what happens. No, I don't necessarily want the Bulls to take Boozer. I'm probably going to call him Carlos, just like I'm going to call Caleb Wilson, Caleb Williams. I'm going to try not to. Cameron Boozer is a really good basketball player and if the Bulls get him, obviously I will extend some grace to the, to respect the decision making of the new powers that be. However, I, in this case with this team at this time, my goal is to get somebody who could be the best player on a champion. And when you have a top four pick in a draft like this, that should be the goal. Now, if they come to me
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and
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I gotta make this really clear because the so far in the questions that we've heard asked of Bryson Graham, we haven't gotten to these specifics yet. I know it would be after the draft that we would ask this. It's after they commit. And if we hear about conviction and consensus and all of these things, if they believe truly that Cameron Boozer can be the best player on a champion, I would like to know why and how and how he can overcome his obvious athletic deficiencies to do that. But if they think that and can make a reasonable case as to that being true, fine. It's possible they agree with those of us who look at Cameron Boozer and see somebody with a really high floor who is definitely going to be good, might even be somebody who makes an all star team or two, but may athletically and explosively lack what it takes to be the best player on a champion. You know, Luka Doncic is not the greatest athlete in the world. Nicola Jokic certainly isn't. But when you start comping Boozer to Jokic in your ideas of what he could be, I start thinking that's a reach because I think Jokic is a unicorn. Jokic is a very, very unique, special basketball player. I know you can't have variations or levels of uniqueness. There is either unique or there is not.
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Jason
So yeah, that's, that's an unfair comparison to the kid.
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Dan Bernstein
I just, I don't think that's right. I also, I've, I've watched Boozer play a lot and he is a just sometimes underneath the basket. In college having to pump fake, having a pump fake. Caleb Wilson doesn't have to pump fake. He can if he wants, but he's going to jump over you and dunk it on your head because he's 610 and that explosive. And from anywhere on, on the floor, anywhere within that protected area, he can put his elbows above the rim at 6, 10, that's just different. So I'm not going to rule anything out, but if I'm talking about my preferences, because I already noticed this, that people get very protective of their personal players. I thought both Boozer twins handled themselves poorly at the end of the game that ended their championship hopes. They're both kicking the ball all over the place. You had Cameron throw it off his foot and then you had Caden throw it away. And I don't think their coach did a that good a job as well. Actually, I didn't. I thought that that's one that he probably doesn't want to have on his resume when it comes to handling endgame situations.
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Jason
But.
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Dan Bernstein
But the bottom line is for the Bulls, if you get DeBonsa, Peterson or Wilson, that's going to be an opportunity. You can make a case for any one of those three based on their ability, based on upside and ability. This is an upside pick if you're the Bulls, that any one of those guys, I think could be the best player on a champion. And if the Bulls disagree with me, cool, that's fine.
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I can sit here and beat anybody
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up for saying, you're wrong, I'm right.
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We don't know. We just. We have some ideas, we have some
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opinions, and that's all good. And if Bryson Graham is in some room right now talking every say, hey, listen, if we get Boozer, we're taking Boozer at four and that's the guy. And here's why. He's the guy. That's the part I just need to hear. I just want to know. It's possible I'm wrong and you're right, Bryson. But why? What do you know that I don't? By the way, kudos to Sam Smith and I. This is despite my long standing belief that people who work for the team and work for the team's website should not be asking questions in press conferences. And I will, I will always. They. You can get the access whenever you want. You can send an internal email. You can walk into his office. You work for the team. If you work for the team, you should never be asking questions in a press conference. But Sam Smith did. And when Bryson Graham said best player, we're going to take the best player and politely said, how do you know who the best player is? How are you going to find out?
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Because these are the questions we have.
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We don't know how they Work. We don't know, we don't know who they are. We don't even know who's advising him yet.
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He has not constructed his front office. He has to do that. And we were speculating yesterday that maybe
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there are people who are kind of
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in between about there could be a
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million job offers out there or interviews.
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He's trying to hire everybody. He didn't have a coach yet.
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And people say, ooh, fourth pick. You know what this does is elevates the Bulls. The idea of them getting a little bit of luck, getting a little bit of juice, getting this kind of, of lift from the ping pong balls is much needed to say, all right, we're picking four, we're picking 15. We had two second round picks as well. They're, they're sitting prettier and if they're going to get aggressive and maybe move up with one or both, maybe try to see what's available in the trade market. They did say they were going to take it deliberately, slowly and be process oriented. So the opportunity for a quick fix here would shock me because it would probably be in Graham's best interest to take the built in cushion that you have from ownership understanding. If you have patience on your side, use it, use it. There's no reason to cash that in right now. If you're Graham. I know you get excited, you get that all of these assets you can burn a hole in your pocket and you start to get a little greedy and you start to think, what if? And you are always trying to do more, more, more, more. But this kid, and I'm going to call him a kid, a 39 year old man who is running the Chicago Bulls. When you have the owner giving you the grace of a longer term look, don't, don't cash that in if you don't have to. And I don't think they will. And I think that argues more for an upside play and a developmental play because Caleb Wilson does have to work on his game. He has to improve his shooting and he's got to tighten up his handle. He has so many things. You can't coach the comps to Sean Kemp. Somebody said he's, he's Chris Bosch and Sean Kemp rolled into one. I think we'd have to dial that back a little bit. We all, and I love comps. I think comps are fun. I think they're, they can be instructive when it comes to body type, when it comes to position, when it comes to developmental arc, when it comes to injury risk. I Believe in that. I believe instead of just one, get as many comps as possible. Because I do think that that can help inform your research. But let's, it's, it's. I'm not going to absolutely 100% if they take Boozer, and I'm not going
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to say they're wrong, I'm right, they're wrong. I don't like a bad pick.
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Just. I would like to know then if he ends up being a bull. I know all the arguments for what he is already and what he is, at a minimum going to be. But if he can stand there and tell me, hey, Bernstein, you got to trust me on this one. He's better than you think. He's got more upside than you think. I am open to hearing why and how from somebody who presumably knows more about basketball than we all do.
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Jason
Well, he better know more basketball than we all do. And Cam Boozer Dan, I don't even think he'd be the second best player on a championship team. I, I really don't. And I, I don't think he would even be a top 10 pick for me.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, I don't, I just don't.
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Jason
I just don't. I don't. I mean, not, not. I mean, I, I, again, I don't watch as much NBA as you do, but I, I've watched enough during the course of this season and then watching the playoffs and there are just too many big bodies out there that I think would just eat him up. And I just, I just don't think he has the game to be the best or even the second best player on a championship team. I think he can be a solid guy that can contribute to a team winning games. But you're not going to look at it. Here's what I look, and I'm not, I'm not saying I make, I'm making this comp. But the best way that I can describe it is he is what Horace Grant was to me for the Bulls.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, he's a better player than that, though.
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Jason
But, but, no, but you didn't, you didn't win games because of Horace Grant, but he contributed to your victories. You know what I mean?
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Dan Bernstein
This is, he's different than that, though.
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Jason
I, I, that, that, I'm not saying he's Horace Grant. It's just, it's that, that comparison of where he fell in the hierarchy of that team and I just, I just don't see him being the first or even second best player on a championship team.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I do think his passing could be special. He's a really, really good passer, and
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Jason
I'm not taking him for to be a good. A good fucking passer.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that's usually. If that's the best thing said, if that's the best thing about a 6, 8 or 6, 9 power player, that's a problem. It's nice, but I want to hear that he can catch it, attack the basket. And I. There are some. Some aspects to him physically where I don't necessarily see them getting better. You know, you don't. You don't make a guy more explosive. You can make a guy a better shooter. Don't make a guy a better passer.
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Jason
Yeah, I don't. I don't disagree with that. I just. I think if you're picking four, it's got to be a guy that changes your franchise, and he's not that guy.
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Dan Bernstein
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Knicks fans all the time, but as
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a group, as a thing, they're funny like they are.
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Jason
They got after the 76ers.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, my God. You talk about a takeover before the game, after the game. We'll get to that in a second.
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That's.
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See, we talk about the pressure cooker of the playoffs and how these series, man, you get. You get so sick of seeing the same guy and the same guys and the same defenses every night and man, Nas. Nas Reed is a bad man. Naz Reed is not going to quit. He is terrific. That, that guy. You talk about whatever cliches you want about just the combination of talent and hard work and taking a physical punishment, getting up off the deck multiple times, being counted on in some one on one situations, late and tired. And Wemby's tired of Nas Reed and that, that he should have known better. He's got to know better. I thought his defiant attitude in the wake of it might have been to. To cover for a little bit of guilt, but I, you know, the way
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they're handling it too.
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Mitch Johnson's like, well, he's been getting beaten up and they're playing physically and he had to react because I don't like the way the officials aren't protecting him. Come on, man.
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You just can'.
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Elbow somebody in the head.
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Jason
Above the neck.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, sorry.
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Above the neck?
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Jason
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
What else is above the neck? That's.
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Jason
I'm.
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Dan Bernstein
I actually was thinking it's at some point.
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Am I missing something above the neck other than head on a human body?
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Jason
Yeah, maybe there's things that we're not seeing.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. Is there like an. Is it like the cylinder where there's
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an infinite amount of space above? So even if you were to like hit above the neck over the head, that counts.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Do we have like a virtual head extension? I didn't, I didn't really understand, but there was.
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It was way too.
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Officially, that game was just way. Everything is reviewed and the officials are talking too much and there's long pauses and I know they're letting him play and I think that, that old Mitch Johnson should know that they're letting him play. And it's hard to officiate. Some players, I don't know that Wemby's necessarily one of them. Like Shaq was where there were. There was more written and said about officiating Shaq because he was too big and he was. What constitutes an offensive foul? If he turns and moves and you go flying, is that an offensive foul? Wendy really isn't one of those Guys, because he's a guard, you know, when he's a quick guy and he weighs
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Jason
as much as one of Shaq's legs.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly.
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But, boy, during the lottery, and when they were showing some of the old shots, they showed rookie Shaq, they showed rookie Barkley, they showed rookie Kenny Smith,
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and then Kenny Smith is like, wait a second. Why is the footage of Barkley clearer than the footage of me if I'm younger than Barkley?
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And there was. There was thin Shaq. Thin, big, smiling Shaq. I remember interviewing Shaq when he was a freshman at lsu and I couldn't hear him. I was all the way down here holding my microphone up to his mouth, and I could not hear what he was saying. I couldn't hear. It was outside Cameron Indoor Stadium, and he was a sensation at the time, and it was a huge thing. And I remember I had to do a hot take on Duke Sports center, the tv, Seth Davis and God, who, Steve Goldberg and me. And it's like, what's your hot take? And my hot take was that Cameron Indoor Stadium because they didn't have tearaway rims yet. That was before they had tear away rims. My whole thing was, Shaquille o' Neal might break one of these backboards because they haven't. They haven't put the. The snapback rims on yet. Yeah, that was. That was. That was the Bernstein hot take of the week.
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Jason
So you've always been good at hot takes.
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Dan Bernstein
It didn't. It didn't happen, of course, but I. I was. That was one of the things I wanted to ask Shaq about. I said, like. Like, when you see a rim that you could break, does it excite you?
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Because he did. Remember, he got to the NBA and
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he broke a bunch of stuff. Remember, like, he ripped one off the stanchion. There was one that fell completely. There's another one that. That the entire hinge collapsed and the
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whole basket went down.
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Yep. Like, all of it. So that. That was my word. Anyway, so they showed Shaq before the draft. They got a big laugh out of that. And I. I just hope Wemby gets the criticism he deserves for being an idiot. He. It's possible you can get suspended for doing something like that. And that was my first thought, is if they thought there was intent and you elbowed somebody right in the face, you might miss a game. They're not going to do that. But good call. The flagrant two. And what they said was, it met all the criteria for flagrant two, and they laid it out and that's exactly how you do it and how you convince people you made the right call. But come on, man. Like, it's one thing to know that you're a star. It's another thing where your absence changes absolutely everything that they do. Your absence makes it a different basketball team, a good basketball team. Because non. Wemby spurs are really good.
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They're just not Wemby Spurs.
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Jason
Right. And I don't think that's here. That series shouldn't be tied up, Dan. Not with. Not with the injuries that they've. They've suffered. That should not be a two. Two series.
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Dan Bernstein
And Anthony Edwards.
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Jason
Oh, yeah, he's something. I mean though, he's something though. So I'll give you that.
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Dan Bernstein
He doesn't give a. Yeah, he doesn't care. And if you don't have fun watching Ant man play, like his whole vibe, then what's the point? Like, he's. If you like sports, you gotta like watching that dude because he is enjoying himself. He's going absolutely as hard as he can knowing what's at stake. Have you ever seen somebody hit a three pointer? You know, Jordan is famous for the shrug, right? Famous. Famous. It's like NBA cannon. That Jordan against the Blazers. He's going crazy. And he looks at Magic and he's like, I don't know. I don't know what's going on. And that became a thing.
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Ant hits a three, goes over and fondles the opposing coach on his way back down the floor.
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Jason
He rubbed his belly. Let's.
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Dan Bernstein
He rubs his belly like he's the Buddha for good luck. He was like, look at that. Look what I did. You know you like that. I've never seen that before. Like, he's invading his personal space. Yeah, he's making him uncomfortable. That would be an HR violation. That's a workplace.
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Jason
Yeah, yeah, that's probably wouldn't be appropriate, but.
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Dan Bernstein
And he just. He kind of smiled. But you can't do that. You can't do that. You can't run back down the floor and be like.
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Jason
To poke his belly like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
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Dan Bernstein
I made a three. That's awesome. That's so much fun.
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And we'll talk about the other series too. Whatever slog that is. Boy. And off the air, Jason and I got in a big argument yesterday. I started throwing stuff at him. He thinks the Cavaliers floor and uniforms are good.
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Jason
Oh, he's wrong.
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Dan Bernstein
He's wrong, right?
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Jason
Yes, he's. He's very wrong.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, he's completely wrong. Thank you. Thank you. It's. It's bad and gross. He's like, no, it's awesome.
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Jason
No.
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Dan Bernstein
Are you, like. I say, like, so bad.
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It's good. It's like. No, I think it looks good.
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Jason
Yeah. That's got to be a generational thing or something.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Jason
His age thing, because it is not good, right? Maybe it just a tough look, man.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Maybe to. To the Gen Z, it just looks like old school or rugged or something like that. But, yeah, it looks bad. No. Anyway, it was a fun game. I'm happy the spurs lost because Wemby's got to wear that one. I'd like to hear a little more humility, a little more contrition, especially from the coach, because I think this is. It's what you do this time of year. You support your star player. But internally, I would hope that Mitch Johnson and even Pop or whoever is involved can come down and be like, hey, Wemby, come on, man. They got you. They gotcha. They know that there are frustrations in these playoffs, and you cannot let it boil over like that. This is part of mental toughness, and doing that is a lapse of. Of mental toughness, is what that is. It's a. It's a. It's a lapse in focus. It's allowing them to get under your skin and they got you. Yeah.
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Jason
And certainly not how the coach responded, though, either.
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Dan Bernstein
No.
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Jason
Blaming the officials.
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Dan Bernstein
No, but I. Again, I know why you're doing that publicly, because that, that politicking, that jawboning, that has been part of the playoffs forever.
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Jason
Sure.
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Dan Bernstein
About. I mean, forever. Pat Riley and Phil Jackson and George Carl and everybody.
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Jason
All the, all the conversations in the media, all directed at the officials, but through the media. Yes, for sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Always. That is. That's a playoff series thing. And the reason you can do it in a playoff series is because you're running the same plays and getting the same matchups. And you. You have these very specific moments where you know the. The angle of every double team, you know everything they're going to do, and you can tell a referee, hey, when he posts up and turns over his right shoulder, they're coming in and they're swatting at his left hand. Like, you can actually point some of these things out, because every little aspect like that is coached, and everybody gets sick. Everybody. And that's the idea, and that's what's
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fun about the playoffs, and that's why
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these are pressure cookers. But I'll say this, not if you're the Knicks.
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No, no.
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Jason
And like, I I get what you're saying, and it's, it's accurate what you're saying, but you can't talk about the physicality of a series when your main guy got a flagrant, too, and got, I mean, you know, gets ejected and elbows a guy in the head. You can't talk about being over physical. You just can't.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, what you're, you're admitting that you're struggling with physicality, because that's what that is. That's what that is. That. That is a. That is a lapse in your mental toughness. Because you got to tell Wemby, hey, man, you.
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Jason
You.
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Dan Bernstein
You've played in some other leagues, you got a lot of experience and you're big and you're famous and you're awesome and you're going to be a Hall of Famer, but you. You can't let them get to you.
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Jason
Yeah. Got to get through it.
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Dan Bernstein
You can't. You. You've got to be above it.
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Jason
Literally. You're a better player. So, man, you're a better player.
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Dan Bernstein
You are above it.
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Jason
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
You're above it. Your elbows are above their heads.
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Don't come down and elbow them in
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the head because if you keep your elbows up here, you're, you're, you're much better off. And he can, he makes plays where he can catch the ball and have it in a place where nobody else can touch it. Yeah, it's one of the reasons he's so great.
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So that would be my, My watchword. My. My line to stay above it. Because they're good even without him. They've got a. And. Ooh, Dylan Harper. Oh, this is. I'm waiting. I don't know if it's been said yet, but I'm sure it will be by. Well, you're a rookie when the season started, but now this deep in the playoffs, you're not a rookie anymore. It's who we hear in the tournament all the time. He might be a freshman, but maybe we don't, because all the good players are freshmen anyway, and then we all leave. But, but for. For a rookie to play with the confidence that Harper does, you know, going up against grown men and they've. They've got a lot of guys who play real hard, but when Wemby comes out and they realized the high, low action that they were getting, because you had Cornet, who was almost zoning a little bit on the back end there as just a rim protector, they knew that he was drifting and they knew that that first post entry after an individual move, whether it's Reed or whether it's Randall, that, that Gobert was going to be open baseline and they were getting a lot of looks, elbow to block. But what was interesting was it's not the typical elbow to block on the same side. That is when you're say against a 2, 3 zone, the way you want that big to big pass to go is almost a quick elbow to block. From that elbow to that block, keep it right and down or left or down. They were getting a lot of cross because of where Gobert was setting up and from where Cornet, from where the help was coming. And Nas reads a better passer than you think. A much better passer than they thought. And if that was your challenge, that's like, look, we're going to make Nazrid beat us with his passing. He did. And they're going to do that. And Randall can do that too because he's a pretty adept basketball player. So I think they're going to be careful with that. You may be better off staying home and just having a man between that first big and the basket. And don't let them get, you know, dunks and, and ones when with the big guy running the baseline there. Now real quick, they. The best part of the Knicks and the Sixers series was the Knicks fans. It really was, you know, and I don't know if you can say you, I like the Knicks fan individually, the individual Knicks fan can be insufferable, but as a group they're kind of awesome. I don't know if you saw the video of, I don't know, the local NBC affiliate in Philly had people trudging out of the arena and all the,
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this thing Talked to some 10 year
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old Philly kid and he's like, fire everybody.
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Like sell the team. Fire everybody.
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He was a kid.
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So that's, that's a hardcore fan right
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there or his dad's a gambler or something and he knows that his college education just got thrown away at his basketball team.
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But then, and then the Knicks fans
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completely swarm in and take over.
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And they weren't being vulgar, they weren't being violent, they were just being stupid. But when you could have that sort of, you know, popping their jerseys and
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making faces and I, they're, they're, they were the group that had sort of the social media thing that was going on outside of Madison Square Garden.
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But when you're doing that on the
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road and they, Especially in Philly. In Philly, in Philly, it's. I don't know. I, I think it's funny and it's harmless. And that's, that's sports and fandom. And I guess I'm, I'm grudgingly saying, look, I'm not afraid to say that I, I love Madison Square Garden and I love going to games there and I generally, Knicks fans are some of the smarter fans. Like you don't have to do the whole Detroit basketball thing or like in Orlando used to where you had to tell them what traveling was. So I'm, I'm cool with a lot of the, the original hardcore fandoms.
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Jason
Dude, they just swept.
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Dan Bernstein
They swept.
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They, not only did they sweep, that thing was over in like a minute and a half.
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Jason
Right. So just, I'm living on three, three,
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Dan Bernstein
three out of here. This is over. They made him quit and they had a blast doing it. So. Good for them.
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Jason
Yeah, they earned it.
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Dan Bernstein
If you need new windows, and you probably do, I know the weather's been really strange. We haven't gotten into like. Because it's going to be like 95 in a blink and then you're going to be like, well, what happened to spring? Where is everything? Why is the AC running and running and running? Because your windows suck, that's why. And you haven't gotten the good low emissivity, double paned windows that are going to save you tremendously on your cooling and, and your heating when that time comes around as well. Just get the good windows already and call Ross Armstrong. You're bombarded with window ads. Everywhere you look it's another window ad. And there's all kinds of deals and gimmicks and things and teasers. You don't need that. What you need are the best windows at the best price and importantly the best experience. And that's why I couldn't recommend Russ Armstrong or Chicago Window Guys any more highly than I do. In large part it's because you're dealing with the owner of the company. He has the factory. The factory is right here in Chicago. You're not dealing with a window company that's just a marketing company for another window company that's based out of somewhere else where you don't know any of the people. You don't know who's installing your windows. You don't know where your windows are being made. You don't need that. Just call 847-302-911, or go to ChicagoNow guys.com you can read some of the five star reviews. You can talk to Russ and as has been understood, when you've taken my advice and you actually go through this process and you say, oh, he was right. I hate to say it, but Bernstein was right. It really is so much nicer to actually deal with someone rather than a, a call bank or an answering service that slots you in and farms you out. Russ doesn't do that. So talk to him. 847-302-9171 or go to ChicagoNowBeyond.com There is a baseball story that caught my eye and also turned my stomach and it has to do with the White Sox and everything that went down with Mike Clevenger. I don't know if you saw this over the weekend. There's a writer named Bradford William Davis who has been an investigative journalist and he has a a site, a newsletter called I Black. And he has gone back and looked at the MLB investigation into former White Sox pitcher Mike Cleven. And this was several years ago. But this should not surprise you that after everything the White Sox went through, everything we went through about Clevenger's aberrant, disgusting, frightening behavior, that based on this new reporting, the MLB investigation was purposefully inadequate, that they stopped looking for evidence because apparently they wanted to stop looking for evidence. Now I'm going to go through here from what the cup of Coffee newsletter had and then the piece here from I.
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Black.
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So the league launched its investigation in January of 2023 after Clevenger was accused of physical, verbal and emotional abuse by Olivia Feinstead. And you've heard her on the airwaves here in Chicago multiple times. This is Clevenger's former partner, the mother of his then 10 month old daughter. So if you remember, just to go through this, Feinstead claimed Clevenger threw an iPad at her when she was pregnant, strangled her, threw chewing tobacco on their kid and flung constant verbal abuse at her as well on March 5th. This is January 24th and it was opened March 5th, it concluded and MLB announced it would not be imposing any discipline against Clevenger, citing lack of evidence. That's what happened. So it took six weeks, then it's closed. Lack of evidence. Now here is what I Black found. Since 2023, MLB has defended its comprehensive investigation into Clevenger's conduct with statements touting the more than 15 people the league interviewed for its probe. But I. Black spoke to three people who say MLB never interviewed them for its Clevenger investigation, even though they claim to have witnessed or experienced his abuse. Two are former girlfriends who described physical, verbal and emotional abuse Bringing the total number of exes who say the currently injured Pirates pitcher harmed them to five. A third person told I Black he witnessed Clevenger's abuse and tried to make him stop, but never heard from mlb. The women who say MLB did interview them about Clevenger for its investigation told I Black that they informed the league about who these witnesses were, why they mattered and how to reach them. And now they accuse MLB's investigators, a team that includes former prosecutors and law enforcement officers, of failing to gather easily attainable, vital testimonies about Clevenger's alleged history. And then the last graph from cup of Coffee is it's not unreasonable to think that had MLB followed the leads that the witnesses it did speak to urged the league to follow before closing its probe, it likely would have collected the sort of proof that Moira Weinberg, who at the time was the league's deputy general counsel and executive within the investigations department, said she could not find when she recommended that Clevenger not be disciplined. So we continue to try to untangle why this guy still in baseball, still he's on the Pirates roster. And it was what we kind of understood, the White Sox thing because there was that weird friendship with was then the son of a White Sox owner in Benji Podgoski, who is now, now inherited the limited partnership shares. And there was the whole Pogoski connection to Clevenger going back to the COVID stuff because apparently they were partying together outside of the restrictions during COVID and they got in trouble for that. But we were always looking at these, these sort of sordid connections between Mike Clevenger and Ben Pogovsky. And that's still there and still kind of icky. Clearly, White Sox never really explained any of that or dealt with it or wanted to or wanted to pay any attention to it. But I don't know that this continues to explain how or if at any point an MLB investigation could be strong, armed from the ownership level or influenced by from the ownership level. But it's just too bad. And what it says is those of us that understood that something didn't quite seem right about how thorough the investigation was were onto something. Who told you at the time, if you remember told you at the time, in these internal investigations, they can find what they want. They can stop when they want. They don't have a sworn commitment or responsibility or obligation to follow every lead to its last end, even when they say that's what they're doing. Let's let the record show now for sure, MLB did Not do that in this case. And at the very least, obviously that that is worth noting. And it sucks. It's too bad. Yeah, it is.
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Jason
It is too bad.
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Dan Bernstein
And you can be like, he's still playing.
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Jason
Right. I mean, you could be like Major League Baseball and half ass investigation, or you could be like the NFL and
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Dan Bernstein
just not do one at all and just not care.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And say, well, we're. It doesn't fall under our purview and, and we don't care because it doesn't really matter. And you're going to stop caring anyway at some point soon. And I'm sure enough people have stopped caring about Mike Clevenger. I would say that kind of thing. I care a lot more about the abuse allegations, violence against children, and everything that he did to multiple women. I care a lot more about that than I do potentially what could have been favor trading and an effect on whether or not Julio Jones got traded to the right team or not. I feel strongly about that. But to me, this, this, this is more of a gut right or wrong. The difference between, you know, mala in se and mala prohibita. You know, bad because it's genuinely bad or bad because it's prohibited. The kind of stuff that Clevenger was doing is. Is like evil stuff. Just treating children horribly is different than criminal stuff. Sleeping with a reporter, it's criminal stuff, Dan.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And whether this is obviously that hasn't been pursued to this point either. I don't know to what end. Everybody else talked to everybody who knew or alleged. So yeah, I just. It was an ugly chapter. It has been an ugly chapter for the White Sox. It's an ugly chapter for the Pirates right now. Keeping him around. There's just no good reason to do it. That bad people should be out of baseball. And same goes for Trevor Bauer and in his army of monsters that continues to support him. So. And apparently he now, Trevor Bauer is desperate enough to be saying, oh, somebody signed me. Nobody wants Trevor Bauer. Nobody should want Trevor Bauer. Trevor Bauer is awful and awful at baseball. And I will say this. Anybody that you run into anywhere that says anything that could even possibly be marginally supportive of Trevor Bauer, either going to a team that you like or second chance or due process, get that person out of your life immediately. Whoever that person is that has even the faintest support for Trevor Bauer on any level, disassociate yourself with that person, back away from that person, block that person on any social media. That is an automatic indicator of toxicity. Automatic. More so than wraparound sunglasses and Your don't tread on me flag and your goatee,
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which. So this is the.
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I also was going to talk about this too. I. I'm getting. As the weather warms up, I have to. At some point, I'm going to start wearing more of the fishing shirts. And, you know, I bought those single color ones like you have.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
I've got a weird blue one, like the. The. I've got the lime green one. My Kermit the Frog one, and I have.
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Jason
Wait, what.
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Dan Bernstein
What color blue?
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Jason
Is it like a cerulean blue or is it a.
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Dan Bernstein
We'll get to that.
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Jason
Oh, okay, sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
We're gonna get to the cerulean blue. Don't worry. But no, it's not a cerulean blue, actually. And I gotta think about it. I'm not. I'm not up to speed. And then the other one's like a tangerine kind of orange, bright orange thing. I also have my camo one from Discount Tackle. There was like a throw in when I bought a bunch of stuff and like, hey, you can. You know, it comes up like, do you want a fishing shirt here that's on sale? It's got, like, Z Man Baits on it and says Discount Tackle on the back. And it's blue, but it's got that weird, like, digitized camo pattern on it.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
So at some point, I'm gonna wear it. I'm just warning you. Well, I think you should. You have to warn me, because everybody in my family, they say, oh, that's
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so cute you're wearing your Republican shirt.
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Jason
Yeah. I think fishing shirt should be really ugly.
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Dan Bernstein
Really ugly. Okay, this one's really ugly.
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Jason
But then go for it.
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Dan Bernstein
So. So even Beth said something's like, you
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know, be really nice.
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It would go really well with that shirt. That's what she said. A goatee and wraparound sunglasses.
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Jason
I think you should.
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Dan Bernstein
You think I should grow it out, get like the. The big sunglasses and put that on there and get like an. I need an angrier hat. I don't have enough hats that are angry. I. I don't need like, the. The full red MAGA hat, because that's what's what.
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Jason
How would you describe an angry hat?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. I don't know.
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Jason
But, like,
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Dan Bernstein
like, it would have, like,
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the Punisher logo on it or.
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Jason
That's a good one.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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I saw logo yesterday. I was.
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I was fishing the river yesterday, and I walked by McFetridge where.
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Which I love.
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It's always heartwarming to hear the sounds of hockey. And I walk by the back door where the Zamboni dumps the snow from, from cutting the ice. So there's always a little snow pile there. Sometimes in the middle of the summer, the kids will be making snowballs. There's. And there was a truck there, and it had this big PBR logo. Who puts a giant PBR sticker on the back window of their pickup truck? And I realized it didn't say Pabst Blue ribbon.
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Jason
Oh, no.
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Dan Bernstein
It was a PBR logo that said proud blue collar. And then in the circle underneath, American. So I'm kind of, I'm kind of looking over, I'm like, okay. So my guess was probably like one of the Kankakee teams was playing at McFadridge because it's still at an Illinois plate. I was doing all my detective work. Yeah.
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Because there are, you know, there's, there's
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some far flung teams that are playing McFetrich spring hockey. So it could be Kankakee, could be Crystal Lake. It could be that. The Antioch program up there. Just based on, based on my experience, the Lakers. Right. That's Annie, that's Antioch. And like McHenry county, that they're hockey,
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Jason
the hockey teams, they're called the Lakers.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Because of the chain of lakes.
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Jason
Sure. Yeah, I know. I get it.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. So I think I was like, I've never seen that. I never said, like, somebody bought that.
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Like, yeah, I like pbr and I'm a proud blue collar American. I'm gonna put this on my truck, drive it around.
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Sweet. Well done. There was golf over the weekend. I watched that too. And I, I then didn't because I wasn't interested. I started out watching the golf and that's like, you know, I think I'm gonna, I might. My golf battery, I'm gonna let it run down a little bit and just fill it up with the pga. Because now we got big tournament this weekend and this is the last warm up. And I thought the leaderboard was okay.
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It's all right. I generally like, you know, Quail Hollow
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can be a fun course to, to watch and Ricky Fowler made a nice little run. But the cool thing about this weekend now is we got a major coming up.
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Jason
Yeah, majors, that's, that's where you fill your battery.
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Dan Bernstein
We got a major coming up. And if you are interested in this, when you bet on golf, you don't have to just pick somebody outright and then sweat it for four days. You don't. Because you can pick a head to head matchup. You can Bet the individual round. You can follow the cut line, or you can wait for Sunday and then say, that's it. I'm going to sit down and snuggle up and enjoy this thing. And pick a guy. You don't need to know everybody's putting stats. You don't have to become a weather guy.
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Keep it simple.
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On the PGA Tour with my bookie. So looking right now, you've got your obvious favorites. Scheffler, McElroy. The way Cam Young is playing, he's got to be on there. Matt Fitzpatrick's got to be on there. And then any other list.
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Or you want to pick somebody who
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hasn't won a major, who you think is ready to do so, that maybe Chris Goddard's been playing great, Maybe Victor Hovland breaks through here, maybe my guy Akshay. Either way, if you need something extra to sweeten the deal, I have a promo code. And it's DBU that gets your first bet covered, up to 500 bucks when you make your first deposit. So don't overthink it. Find your angle. Make your pick and cash in. The code. DBU for Dan Bernstein, unfiltered. So go in and register and deposit, and then you can cash in mybookie. So yesterday afternoon I took your advice, Maddie, and we saw Devil Wears Prada 2.
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Jason
Nice.
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Dan Bernstein
Here. Can I. This is the. My review. I don't intend to have spoilers here. There might be something. It was fine. I thought it did some things well. I thought it did other things not as well. I will admit that I liked Devil Wears Prada, but I'm not a super fan. You know, it was a good movie. I liked the movie. I'll watch it when it comes on. It's. I will say it is not. Not easy to recapture that kind of magic of. Of a time and place. And it was 20 years ago, so I think considering the 20 year time span, it's a. They did it about as well as can be done because it was going to be an uphill battle no matter what. The box checking for fan servicing, I thought was handled nicely. The movie is gorgeous. Everything is gorgeous. Everything. The lighting and the hair and the makeup and the clothing and the people and the architecture and Milan and everything. It's a beautiful movie. It's overwritten because it kind of has to be. There's a lot of exposition. There's a lot of explanation. There's a lot of contrivance, the word being contrived to get people into certain situations so the characters can be. Who you want them to be and act in the way you want them to act to deliver all your things. But it's in the hands of professionals. There are so many really talented people involved that it's a. It's a high quality product. It's. It's an okay movie as a. As a work of art.
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Jason
It's.
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Dan Bernstein
It's. It's an okay movie. The music is good. The. They do an amazing job. My favorite characters in the movie are the young billionaire douchebags. They do a wonderful job of capturing everything that's odious about what we hate and fear about. About oblivious, stupid tech billionaires. I thought that that part was great, but I must say, and I don't know if you thought this as well, you know that one of my pet peeves in a movie. I'm going to take you back to the movie Castaway, where I always refer to Zemeckis as a hack for this. At the end of Castaway, when Tom Hanks characters deciding, does he want to work hard to get his wife back and build his old life, or does he want to return this one package that he saved that is imbued with all of this symbolic value and it's advertising for FedEx, does he turn the other way and go. And he's literally standing at a crossroads.
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Jason
I actually in the theater yelled, run, Forrest. Run.
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Dan Bernstein
Run, Forest.
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And I. And I. I said something like, oh, my God. No. It happens in this movie. There is a scene where Amanda Priestley. Miranda Priestley. Miranda Priestley in Milan. It's a beautiful crossroads, I will say that. Where the same thing. Crane shot. It kind of pulls back and there. I forgot. It's like Gucci. Not Gucci. It's like Prada.
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Jason
Prada, yes.
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Dan Bernstein
And one of the other Italian houses. And it's a literal fashion crossroads at which she is standing and I. And I'm hitting Beth in the arm, like, damn it. And she just hits me and just stop it. I know.
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Don't you?
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So, yeah, she's like, yes, I know. Leave me alone. Let me watch the movie. Shut up, idiot. But other than that, I would say I wasn't unhappy. I spent the money on it. There's also.
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Commercial Announcer
It was good.
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Jason
And like I said, it was. It was simple. It got the job done. It actually got a higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes than the original, which was interesting both from critics and fans. So that's. That's interesting to note. Very close, though. But it got the job done. It felt warm and comfortable. The only now the crossroads thing.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Jason
I saw it. I'm like, whatever. It doesn't bother me much as it. As it bothered you, clearly. The thing that got me to make an audible sound, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Jason
Was the Iraq bowing.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, right. And left.
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Jason
Well, the dinner party was the Hamptons.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Jason
They get the worst one.
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Dan Bernstein
You know what I thought of when they got to the dinner party? Get out.
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Jason
Yeah, that's a good call.
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Dan Bernstein
I. I thought immediately that they were gonna go auction off the black guy to put a different brain in his body.
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Jason
But when. Yeah, when he was like, oh, I'm Carl. And she's like, oh, Anthony Townes.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, I'm the other 7 foot
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Carl in the Hamptons.
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Jason
Right. So I was like, come.
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Dan Bernstein
I actually, I went, oh, no, you're Carl Anthony Towns.
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I know who you are.
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Well, anyway, you're US Men's national team
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soccer goalie Tim Howard. Why, yes, I am Tim Howard. No. Yeah, there was some. Some seriously vicious Iraq poings going on right and left. Although they didn't.
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Do they do it to Rory.
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Jason
They did not do it.
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Dan Bernstein
He did not. Because Rory and his wife are there. But they didn't. Yeah, he.
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Jason
He didn't need to be identified.
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Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Jason
The black basketball player needs to be identified.
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't need to be told it was Carl Anthony Towns.
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Jason
Correct.
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Dan Bernstein
And he said, I'm Carl.
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And it's like, oh, Anthony Towns. No, no, I'm.
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Jason
I'm Carl Johnson.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly. What did you.
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Jason
What did you think of. Of her boyfriend? The. The love interest they gave her in the. In the movie?
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Dan Bernstein
Kind of a wet noodle.
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Jason
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Australian.
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Jason
A letdown. A little let down in that relationship. Okay. I'm glad that we're on the same page.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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But that, but that also is a type.
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That's who she ends up with.
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People like this.
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She ends up. Maybe she's kind of a big personality.
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And I thought she was a little sort of manic.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And.
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But Andy Sachs attracts wimps. She really does. She just does.
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Jason
You know, I guess that's true because you got the whiny from the first one.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. She has a type. And I thought he seemed like. I thought Kenneth Branagh was wonderful. He seemed much. You know, he. I don't know what she did to deserve him. I didn't think that Miranda Priestley would end up with somebody who seemed like. I don't know.
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But maybe.
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Who knows? Who knows.
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Jason
Yeah. What happened? What transpired in her life after that? That. That divorce from her husband from the first movie. But no, again, overall, it was good. And again it was comfortable and it was simple and it felt good and it was good music and you get Lady Gaga in there and lots of other celebrities that come through.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And it's all.
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And if you want the. The fashion porn of all of the outfits and the mon. Yeah. Of the changing of the outfits.
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Jason
Suits, it was. I mean, all of his suits were just. Are just great.
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Dan Bernstein
What did you.
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Jason
What did you think of the moment between Miranda and Stanley Tucci when she goes up to him and gives him.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, and gives him the opportunity.
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Jason
Yeah. The opportunity to. To. To address the crowd and kind of lead the night? I thought that was a really sweet moment.
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Dan Bernstein
I did, too. But then when we find out at the. Okay. But I thought the ending changes a little bit of that when we know what he knew. Right.
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Jason
No, I. No, I. I didn't. I didn't feel that way at all. I thought. Yeah. I thought it was a touching, kind of warm, warm moment.
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Dan Bernstein
So.
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Jason
Felt good.
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Dan Bernstein
It is.
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And I think the theme of this is. Is further humanization of Miranda.
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Jason
Yeah, for sure.
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Dan Bernstein
That's.
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We're still.
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As she's aging, she's becoming more human. And her little monologue about the book. Possibility, I think lent to that. But for sure, you know, I guess.
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Jason
Yeah. Overall, good. And I'm glad you went and saw it. I knew. I knew you didn't. You'd enjoy it, so.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I. I did.
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It's not some towering cinematic achievement.
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Jason
No, it's. It was never going to be. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
It's a high quality product that. That delivers enough of the goods to make it worth your while.
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Jason
So you know what's happening? What is it? What is the day today? Today is the 11th. You know what's happening Wednesday.
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Dan Bernstein
What is happening Wednesday?
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Jason
What? Something special that AMC theaters are doing.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't.
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Jason
For the 40th anniversary, they're bringing back Top Gun and Top Gun Maverick to the theater.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Did. I don't know where this was. Did you see this special popcorn container
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Jason
for Devil Wears Prada or the helmet.
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Dan Bernstein
The helmet for Top Gun?
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Jason
Yes, I did see it.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. All right. I'm just making sure.
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Jason
Yeah. Because you. It's a goose helmet.
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Dan Bernstein
You have to have one. Yes.
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Jason
Oh, let me pull this up. I got. I got to get this on the wall. Oh.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, God.
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Jason
So yesterday we went to Lake County Fairgrounds. They had like an antique show and like, I don't know, flea market maybe
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Dan Bernstein
is a better description.
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Yeah.
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Jason
So Natalie and I, we went and walked around and there was a guy there, an artist.
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Dan Bernstein
Let me get his name right here.
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Jason
TonySantiagoArt.com so it's Tony Santiago.
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Dan Bernstein
Santiago.
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Jason
And does drawings and paintings and. So look what I got for 20 bucks.
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Dan Bernstein
Sweet.
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Is that gonna go? What? So are you gonna frame it?
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Jason
Yes, I'm gonna frame it. It's gonna go behind me here next to my Sandberg jersey.
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Dan Bernstein
When's that coming?
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Jason
I gotta get it. I know. I'm being lazy about it. Yeah. Cruise and Iceman and Goosebumps. Yeah, yeah, the F14s. Yeah. Very cool. He had a lot of great stuff. So I saw that, and Natalie's like, I got to get that for you.
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Dan Bernstein
I think your home studio has just become the danger zone.
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Jason
But yeah. So Wednesday, they're bringing both movies back out to see them at the theater and IMAX. I'm 100% going.
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Dan Bernstein
As you should.
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Jason
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
And you should eat McRibs beforehand if you can find.
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Jason
If McRibs are out, I would totally do that.
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Dan Bernstein
And just have the mattiest day you can possibly make. Maddie.
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Jason
Ever.
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Dan Bernstein
Time for our DBU picks that are brought to you by my bookie. And I'm going to give you a prop parlay, and that is that tonight both Cade Cunningham and Donovan Mitchell are going to hit three or more threes. Okay. There you go. And. And that's what I'm going with. The Cade Cunningham, Donovan Mitchell, both three threes minimum.
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Jason
All right. I love it. Friday I was 2 and. Oh, so our. Yeah, we had our spurs and I had the Knicks getting a point and a half. That get me to. That gets me to 62, 38 and one through college and NBA.
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Dan Bernstein
We're underrating this story, by the way, that you're just. And basketball isn't even, like, your favorite sport.
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No, it's not even.
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You're absolutely wrecking shop.
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Yeah.
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Jason
And I'm so. I'm a little concerned about tonight because I'm going against my heart. So I'm going to put these two games together. I'm going to take the lakers and the 11 points. So Lakers plus 11 at home. I'm counting on LeBron James not to get swept out of the playoffs.
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Dan Bernstein
Can you count on deandre Ayton not being a delicate little flower against Isaiah Hartenstein?
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Jason
I can't.
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Dan Bernstein
Hardenstein is kicking him in the balls repeatedly.
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Jason
I know. So, like, my. My heart wants the Lakers to lose by more than 11, but I'm going to. I'm going to. I'm going to think that LeBron's not going to let his team get swept out of the playoffs and they'll lose in five. So I'm going to go Lakers plus 11 and then I think this Cavs in Detroit series is going seven and I think home teams are going to win out. So I'm going to take the Cavs minus three and a half. Now I think the Cavs are going to win. It just it might be a one or two point game. I might, this might three and a half might be too much to give, but I'm going to do it. So Cavs minus three and a half. I'm going to pair that with The Lakers getting 11 to stay alive.
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Dan Bernstein
Those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. And that is DBU. Brought to you by Chicago Window Guys, 847-302-9171 chicagowindowguys.com 8 and in partnership with my bookie Dan Bernstein.
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Podcast Narrator
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Podcast Narrator
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