Five Years Later: The Chicago Bears Arlington Heights Land Purchase

Summary

Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – Episode Summary
Episode Title: Five Years Later: The Chicago Bears Arlington Heights Land Purchase
Date: June 17, 2026
Host: Dan Bernstein
Co-host: Matt Abbatacola

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode marks the five-year anniversary of the Chicago Bears’ Arlington Heights land purchase with a sharp, satirical look at the organization’s stalled progress toward building a new stadium. Dan and Matt reflect on what’s changed (and what hasn’t), roast Bears leadership for ineptitude and indecision, and address recent developments and wild pivots (like Hammond, IN and South Works), all while interweaving classic Bernstein wit, Chicago sports gripes, and memorable asides. The episode also features a harrowing “news of the weird” story and lively banter about regional pride.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Bears’ Anniversary, or Lack Thereof

[02:05 – 05:01]

• Five years since the Bears announced their bid for the Arlington International Racecourse property.
• Satirical gifting suggestions for a wooden fifth anniversary: driftwood, shovels, cigar boxes.
• No progress: No stadium, no shovel in the ground, no blueprints, no financing, and continued tax payments.

“Five years from now, you will be no closer to a shovel in the ground. No building plans, no official, no blueprints, no financing taken care of, no bonds issued. Nothing.”
– Dan Bernstein (05:01)

2. The Bears’ Leadership and Repeated Missteps

[05:01 – 16:27]

• George McCaskey’s ineffective oversight and lack of progress on the stadium front.
• The hire of Kevin Warren, described as “best at selling himself with no real football acumen,” who’s ignored political advice and consistently bungled Bears relocation efforts (e.g., the “toxic waste dump” in Hammond, IN).
• Endless meetings, hiring of lobbyists, and a perceived arrogance in dealings with Chicago and Springfield politics.
• Bears’ lack of real movement—no permits, no environmental work, no serious work on alternative sites despite public bluster.

“Instead they’re playing silly leverage games that only the dumbest people are falling for right now.”
– Dan Bernstein (11:46)

• Mockery of rumors and jokes about the McCaskey family succession (“Both Eds will take over!”).

3. Stadium Saga Slog: Alternatives and Realities

[16:43 – 23:06]

• Repetitive “pivoting” to other sites: South Works (where $500M+ is already committed to other projects) and back to Soldier Field.
• Increasing probability that the Bears will simply stay at Soldier Field and eventually sell the Arlington land at a loss.

“When it's all said and done, the Bears are just going to end up staying in Soldier Field...they'll sell the land and they'll stay in.”
– Co-host (22:12)

• Arlington land’s value without a stadium is questionable.

4. Lighthearted asides: Family Naming, Adirondack Chairs, and Bears Fandom

[16:56 – 23:53]

• Bernstein and Matt riff on the McCaskey family having multiple “Ed”s.
• They joke about anniversary gifts, Adirondack chairs, and the challenges of large families.

5. White Sox “Kiss of Death” and Chicago Baseball TV Musings

[26:30 – 32:49]

• Dan humorously laments having jinxed Sox pitcher Davis Martin by praising him on a previous episode.
• Entertaining grievances about the quality—and odd chemistry—of current White Sox and Cubs TV broadcasts.
• Praise for Marquee’s inventive replay shots and the aesthetics of night games at Wrigley.

6. The NBA Finals: Ratings, Knicks Bandwagon, and Wemby Mania

[33:56 – 41:07]

• NBA viewership is up: highest Finals ratings since the Jordan era (1998); Game 5’s audience peaked at 33.3 million.
• Bernstein marvels at the basketball quality in the Western Conference finals.
• Amusing side note: Knicks star OG Anunoby goes viral for his “hilarious blank stare” on Good Morning America.

7. Regional (Midwest) Pride and the Miller Lite Commercial

[41:09 – 49:37]

• Bernstein tells a story about Billy Joe Armstrong at Wrigley, whose attempt at invoking “Midwest” pride flopped with the crowd.
• Both hosts poke fun at the artificiality of regional marketing and the reality of Miller Lite being brewed in multiple locations.
• Playful debate about whether multi-state “Midwestern” identity is even a thing.

“I just never felt like...Alright, alright. It's still brewed in the Midwest. Because I only patronize Midwestern businesses because of my pride in this region.”
– Dan Bernstein (46:11)

8. Weird News: Brazilian Bungee-Jumping Disaster

[51:12 – 63:32]

• A grim but surreal tale: bungee-jumping company in Brazil launches a woman off a bridge without attaching the bungee cord—resulting in her death.
• Bernstein and Matt process the story’s reporting, the apparent lack of safety procedures, and the horror of the basic failure.
• Black humor questioning how it’s “their first fatality,” whether it’s murder or manslaughter, etc.
• Takeaways: Don’t bungee jump, don’t do dangerous things for no reason.

“The key to the bungee jumping is the bungee.”
– Dan Bernstein (61:23)

9. Epilogue: Parasailing Mishaps & The Circle of Bears Wood

[63:45 – 65:37]

• Reminiscences about nearly disastrous parasailing trips—more gallows humor and warnings about elective thrill-seeking.
• Episode comes full circle with a callback to the start: “We started this edition of DBU talking about the wood that should be gifted to the Bears ... and we finish with parasailing into a wood chipper. And you only get that... on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered.” (65:37)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “All you are is poorer.” – Dan Bernstein, summarizing five years of the stadium saga (08:36)
• “If they were advertising discount bungee jumping, we do it without the cord.” – Dan Bernstein (57:58)
• “That’s the difference between bungee jumping and throwing someone off a bridge.” – Dan Bernstein (56:55)
• “Awesome. The Bears can move in in 2052 when it's done.” – Co-host, on Hammond construction (14:59)
• “They have to look in the mirror and say to themselves, ‘What am I doing, George? This is that day.’” – Dan Bernstein (15:55)
• “What did you name your kid? Ed. And then, like a year later, we also had a baby. We also named our kid Ed. It's like, what the hell, man?” – Dan Bernstein (18:58)

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Key Timestamps

• [02:05] – Opening, Bears “wooden” anniversary jokes
• [03:27] – Reading the Bears’ 2021 Arlington Heights bid tweet
• [05:01-11:00] – Lack of progress, McCaskey critique, Kevin Warren hire
• [13:12] – Hammond/Indiana site mockery, “toxic waste dump” angle
• [22:12] – Prediction: Bears will just stay at Soldier Field, sell land
• [26:30-27:53] – Dan’s “kiss of death” on Sox pitcher
• [33:56] – NBA Finals ratings, New York effect, Wemby
• [41:16] – Billy Joe Armstrong “Midwest” story
• [51:12] – Brazilian bungee disaster story
• [63:45] – Personal parasailing mishaps, episode wrap-up

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In the Words & Tone of the Hosts

As always, Dan Bernstein and Matt Abbatacola deliver their blend of blunt, darkly comic, and self-deprecating Chicago sports commentary. They roast the Bears’ leadership and their inertia with sarcasm (“Congratulations! All you did is get poorer.”), and their back-and-forth is littered with dry humor, sports in-jokes, and family anecdotes. Even in covering the morbid news story, they lean into absurdity (“That’s the difference between bungee jumping and throwing someone off a bridge”).

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Final Takeaway

This episode displays Dan Bernstein Unfiltered at its sharpest: a deep, stinging critique of the Chicago Bears’ stadium saga, delivered with trademark wit and skepticism, a nod to Chicago sports’ curses, and a recurring lesson: Don’t trust a legacy sports family’s vision or let someone throw you off a bridge without a rope.

Transcript

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[Dan Bernstein]

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

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Let's get, get the Bears some lovely, I don't know, some driftwood furniture or some, some, some teak Adirondack chairs.

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

No, go to the, like the, like the closest gas station and get like a bundle of firewood.

[Dan Bernstein]

A bundle of firewood would be nice, but I think we can afford to get them something that maybe shovels, maybe, maybe big wooden shovels or maybe like

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

a nice wooden cigar box to pull cigars out of when they're celebrating. Oh, beautiful stadium in Hammond.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I like it. A desk humidor as it were. Lovely. And it says congratulations. And why on what are we congratulating these Chicago Bears? Well, five years ago today, the following tweet was issued from at Chicago Bears and there's their, their pride logo. The rainbow colored sea was their avatar for the month and it says statement by Ted Phillips, Chicago Bears president and CEO. Official statement. We recently submitted a bid to purchase the Arlington International Racecourse property. It is our obligation to explore every possible option to ensure we're doing what's best for our organization and its future. If selected, this step allows us to further evaluate the property and its potential. And that is 1:42pm 17 June 21st. Well, happy anniversary, Bears. You're no closer to having your own stadium. You have the land.

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

So I mean you, you were selected, you have the land. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

You, you won that bid.

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

And you are no closer today than you were that particular day to actually building on that land.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. I would like to know if George McCaskey was told on this day that not only if they said, hey, George, in five years, however he was, what is he, 72 now? And he was 67 then somebody said George, in five years. And that's, and that's when Virginia was alive. And you're telling everybody there, Sandy, this is, we know this is a major step and this is you're looking out on the horizon as you're captaining the bear's ship, knowing where you're headed on your magnificent journey. Five years from now, you will be no closer to a shovel in the ground. No building plans, no official, no blueprints, no financing taken care of, no bonds issued. Nothing. Nothing. They've done the work, they've owned the land, they've paid a lot of taxes on that land and they've spent uncounted millions building out their brand new shiny Kevin Warren front office filled with vice presidents and they hire lobbyists and they hire political experts to come in and advise Kevin Warren. And they talk and they talk, and they have meetings, and they have meetings, and he ignores everything they say because he knows better. And after five years, instead of this property, instead of here, all this. This excitement in this moment, this is what we are doing. They are doing because they must do what is best for our organization and its future. And then somehow that changed. And then they hired the music man who's putting the band together. And he has walked you publicly. Not privately, of course, because they're not going to a toxic swamp, but publicly he is saying, that's where we want to go. We want to go to where there used to be all of these refineries and slag heaps and treated human waste. And even though now it's protected land, we can't build there until 2050. And you know where the water table is, there's protected wetlands there. But we haven't done any of that work. We haven't applied for any permits there. We're hoping nobody realizes that. You know what else they haven't done? They haven't done any of the environmental legal work. They just. They haven't, because that's really expensive. And it's another case of the McCaskeys not having the money. So they haven't really investigated that or their secret multiple sites that they're talking about, but they won't specifically name because they don't really have them. And they'll come up with all that. They'll find a way. But until they actually spend the money to start the work, there's no reason to believe that they're intending to start any work or that they have the money to even begin to do that. But that was five years ago. Think about how different our lives were. Think about where you were in 2021. Just, you know, this. We're just beginning to start to recover from the pandemic at that point, kind of poking our heads outside from the pandemic. And then the bears say, all right, here we go. We are going to. We're going to go grab this land and build in Arlington Heights and fulfill the vision that George Hallis had going back 50 years. And you're no closer. All you are is poorer.

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

Yeah, Dan. It's just. It's amazing to me that if they would have said to George, hey, you know, congratulations on, you know, being selected, 197 million. Is that right? To buy the land? And then if they were to say to him on this day five years ago, in what, 18 months? In 18 months you're going to hire a guy that has the ability, and his best ability is to sell himself with no real football acumen, with no real resume or reputation of doing anything productive for any organization he worked for. You're gonna hire that guy in 18 months and he is going to try to take you across state lines to build on a toxic waste dump. That is the future of your decision to buy the land in Arlington Heights.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right.

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

Do you want $200 million? Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

If you have this choice and we've been to the future and we've seen what happens, do you want to hire this guy? And the other thing, George, that you're going to do is you're going to tell him you haven't experienced Illinois politics and Chicago politics in Springfield and Cook county. And this is a different animal. So what we're going to do is we're also not just hiring you. We're going to have to hire an entire support team of, of experts and lobbyists and people experienced with the political machinations of this city, state, county. And we're going to have everybody at your disposal. And then he's going to ignore all of them. He's going to be told, yeah, you should do this or you should tell this to this person or you shouldn't do this without doing this, or nobody's going to believe you on this. And none of that advice is going to be heeded because he knows better.

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

And also, George, we're going to tell you that five years from now, the Illinois legislator is going to put together a package that's going to pass one side of Illinois lawmakers and on the final waning hours before the bill dies, the man that you hire won't even be there, too busy work on your companies, on your organization, your team's behalf.

[Dan Bernstein]

Correct. Yet he's still employed some somehow still has a job. Every day that goes by where I wake up flabbergasted that any owner who has been dealing with this wouldn't some awaken go, wait like, you know what this is a day for, George? This is a day to look in the mirror, realize it's been five years since you submitted a bid to purchase the land where you wanted to move your team and have a mixed use entertainment district. And everyone we're like, oh yeah, great idea. That's exactly where they should go. Sounds perfect. All right, let's get on it. Let's see what they can do. Negotiate a tax rate and pick a bill that'll allow for the infrastructural help, but they haven't done it. They haven't really responded. And they have held themselves up as higher and mightier and just expecting work to be done for them because they are who they are. And the response has been, no, that's not how this works. You have to participate. You have to say, here's what we want. Here's how we want it. This would be. And there's people who can't wait to do that, are just telling you, tell us, you know, be. Be a part of this in one way or another. And instead they're playing silly leverage games that only the dumbest people are falling for right now. And there's a lot. There's a lot of dumb people out there who are falling for the this, who are a lot of. There's a lot of bad poker players out there who can't sniff this out. But the moment somebody says, well, we are moving out here, and then you say, well, have you applied for permits? No. Oh, okay. Have you asked your lawyers to begin the arduous, time consuming, tedious environmental legal work?

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

No.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, then why should we believe you're actually serious about going there? Because I say so. And I'm Kevin Warren. See, it doesn't work that way.

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

Hey, we haven't talked about it and I don't know, I can't remember when the video came out, and maybe it happened when I was in Indianapolis, but the video of Kevin Warren and I think an Illinois politician maybe, and I don't know who it was, but yeah,

[Dan Bernstein]

she was just in the hallway and says, are you going to Indiana?

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

Yeah. And he's like, what, tonight for dinner? And makes a joke about it like, dude, like, how tone deaf are you, man? Like, he really loves, like, Kevin Warren loves selling. Kevin Warren.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know exactly what he's supposed to say to that, but because he

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

maybe not participate in a video.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. Or, or, or say reiterate exactly what you had said. Say, are you moving Indiana? Say that is our current focus. Yes.

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

That's where the board has voted to turn all of our attention towards. Towards Hammond.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. Stick to your story.

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

It's funny, I've seen a lot, lot of reaction. We talked about, you know, that my drive I had on Sunday.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah.

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

And lots of the reaction.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, to the traffic issues.

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

Traffic thing was great. About how people are like, you two are idiots. They're going to build new roads and do new things. Yeah. Have you seen Illinois construction on roads? Like, I mean, if we're using that as a stepping stone to getting towards a stadium in Hammond, Indiana. Good luck getting that done in 15 years if you're lucky. Like, don't just act like they're going to start building this summer. Shovels in the ground this summer in Hammond, and then all of a sudden, these new roads will be built by the end of the year. Like, are you insane? Have you seen road construction projects in Illinois? Come on, man. Be smarter than that, you two idiots. They're going to build new roads. Okay, great.

[Dan Bernstein]

Awesome.

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

Right? The Bears can move in in 2052 when it's done.

[Dan Bernstein]

When they're allowed to build on some of that land once. Once some of these. These protections of the federal wetland areas expire.

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

Hey, did you know that that's. That's protected land? Well, I'm sorry, what.

[Dan Bernstein]

Who. What happen.

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

What happened?

[Dan Bernstein]

What is protected wetlands? We never heard of it. We don't know what you're talking about, but like I said, they. They haven't done any of that work. No, they haven't done anything because they're not going there.

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

Yes. And they never were.

[Dan Bernstein]

I s. They said they were going there. Okay, Enjoy. Have fun. Have fun with that. So that was. And we got. We go back to Ted Phillips making that statement, making that move. And I'm looking at the tweet right now. Five years ago.

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

So. Happy anniversary, Chicago Bears, on the purchase of the land. Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Let's celebrate. Let's celebrate the foresight and business acumen of your Chicago Bears. When they can say, we have seen the future and it leads us to the promised land of Arlington Heights. Unless we buck it up, which we will. And oh, boy, have they. At some point, George just has to look in the mirror and say to himself, what am I doing, George? This is that day.

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

Yeah. I think George needs to say, you know what I think? I think it's time for me to step away. I think. Well, my last act as chairman of the board is to fire Kevin Warren. And then I think I'm just going to slowly fade into the background of the McCaskey family and the Bears organization.

[Dan Bernstein]

And we're hiring. I'm going to be replaced by both of my nephews named Ed.

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

Ed. The eds will take over the Ed's.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's two eds. Yep. We're not making that up. How do you end up with two EDs?

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

And they're. They're both his nephews.

[Dan Bernstein]

Is. One is not a brother.

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

I thought one was a brother.

[Dan Bernstein]

Isn't it? Well, there's multiple. There's a lot of EDs.

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

And there's a lot of McCaskeys.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know there's a lot. But I think there's two of the same generation that are named Ed. Don't you want to figure that out as a family?

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

Well, I mean. I mean, you're talking to an Italian guy where, like, pretty much everyone's named Tony, and you got multiple Tonys, and.

[Dan Bernstein]

What's the line from Goodfellas? I would go to these parties, and everybody named Marie.

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

Yeah, Marie and Anthony. Yeah. Except for, you know, my. My branch of the. Of the Italian family tree. My. My mom took all Bible names, so that's why.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's why you're Matthew.

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

That's why. Matthew. And then my other brothers are Mark and Daniel and David.

[Dan Bernstein]

See, those are real ass American names right there.

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

You got two Old Testament names and two New Testament books.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's how you do it. You get the Daniel and the lion's den, Right?

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

That's right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Showing courage, walking through there very quietly. I would imagine you don't want to actually drop your pen or something, because that would. That wouldn't go well.

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

Well, unless you're. I mean, unless you're, like, friendly with big cats and not big cat, but big cats, and maybe you're, like. Maybe Daniel was friends with Joe Exotic, and he was able to.

[Dan Bernstein]

Ah, tiger den. Different lions, different den.

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

Right? Lion's den. You got. You got. You got Coach Campbell coming at you.

[Dan Bernstein]

No lions. And, you know, you're in there, and you're just like, hey, I'm. I'm. I'm good. Joe Exotics, my buddy. And they're like, yeah, that's tigers.

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

Yeah, we're.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

We.

[Dan Bernstein]

We don't know, Joe. We. This is. That doesn't offer you any protection here. Sorry. You should have worn. Should have worn less squeaky shoes. Sorry, Daniel. Things don't go well for you.

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

But the.

[Dan Bernstein]

You can't. You can't have two people the same generation named Ed.

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

No, but things actually went well for Daniel. He was fine. But. No, you can't. You can't have two.

[Dan Bernstein]

We also. We just. Congratulations. What did you name your kid? Ed. And then, like a year later, we also had a baby. We also dated our kid Ed. It's like, what the hell, man?

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

Yeah, I thought. I thought One of the EDs was his brother, though. Maybe I'm wrong.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know again.

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

Virginia had what, 10, 11 kids, didn't she?

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, she was one of.

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

Well, she was one of. I thought she had a bunch of kids.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's a whole lot of you know, a lot of kids there. I don't know how you end up feeding everybody appropriately. Or do you just not care if one doesn't get enough food or fend for themselves? Right. Or there's no. Or there's no money left for college. I'm sorry, we're out. We don't have any money left for you. Oh, thanks. Okay, great. Or do you expect that the eldest has already started earning money that'll start paying for, I don't know, they pay it forward. I, I, I don't know.

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

It just.

[Dan Bernstein]

It for me, you know, having two was probably, you know, enough of a challenge. I can't imagine having 10. I should have named both of my kids Ed.

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

Zoe would have appreciated that.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. Hey, Ed makes things easier, I guess.

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

All right, so she had Michael, Timothy, Patrick, Edward Jr. McCaskey.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

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

George McCaskey, Richard McCaskey, Brian McCaskey, Joseph McCaskey. And then had three daughters, Mary Ann and Ellen. So.

[Dan Bernstein]

And also a daughter named Ed.

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

One of the EDs is a brother.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, so maybe the other Ed is his son. Maybe that's Ed3. Or Trey or Trip.

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

Yeah, maybe.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know.

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

All I know is that both Ed should take over. George should step down after he fires Kevin Warren.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, this is. I think you might want to reevaluate what, what you kind of did here. Because it failed. It didn't work. And pretending that now something is still working, it may not really be the way to go either. Did you see the report from NBC 5 yesterday, too, about the, the new site?

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

Oh, yeah, I saw, I saw Paris shuts. I saw his report on that. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Now state Rep. Curtis Tarver is calling on the city to develop the south worksite for the bears, saying if for the city now that they're trying to resurrect the Zombie south work site, which he's saying there's already 500 million committed to the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park. 300 million directed toward building out the South Works campus. So now he wants the answer is to create a museum campus. South plus Quantum. And the bears should look seriously at the South Works Quantum district and the surrounding southeast side, not as a substitute for the Quantum campus, but part of a broader plan. Sports, science, health, education, lakefront access, jobs, small business growth, and neighborhood revival. Huh? Okay, fine.

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

Do it. Great. Weeks and weeks and weeks ago, when I said that, you know, when this is all said and done, the bears are just going to end up staying in Soldier Field. Yes, it's I'm feeling more and more that, that they're going to end up just selling the land in Arlington Heights. I mean they're, they're, they're good on their tax through next year. What is it, 3.4 million or 3.8 million? They'll sell the land and they'll stay in.

[Dan Bernstein]

So math on the land.

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

I know, I know they did.

[Dan Bernstein]

Who's gonna buy that lit Unless someone is.

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

Well, they're gonna, they're gonna take a huge hit on it. Because I think the last, the last evaluation I saw of it was like 150, 150 million.

[Dan Bernstein]

Without a stadium on it, it's not worth anything.

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

I know.

[Dan Bernstein]

I mean it's worth a lot more than the dump in Hammond.

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

Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

The actual value of that land. It'll take forever for the value to drop to the point where it's, it's like the, the slag heap on the human poo.

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

I mean, could you, I mean, couldn't that get developed for residential?

[Dan Bernstein]

I mean, I guess, sure, but you're 300 some acres is more than just a little residential thing you're talking about. You know, you're, you're involving. That's an entire community there. It's like building a city.

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

Yeah. Build a new city. We built this city on rock and roll. It on rock and roll.

[Dan Bernstein]

There you go. Instead of building it on human waste, we built this city on human waste. There you go. I think George should have a day today where you celebrate that five year anniversary and you give great gifts of wood. Here's your cigar, your celebratory cigar humidor. I like the idea of Adirondack chairs. I love a good Adirondack chair.

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

I do too.

[Dan Bernstein]

At the end of the day, you're looking out over the lake. You're sitting on the porch of the cabin. Your arms are well supported. Maybe you get a splinter or two, but that's just part of being in the outdoors. And you're, you know, you kind of lean back, you hear the call of the loons and you just take in the day.

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

You know, bear fans there, there's bears fans around him.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, major loons.

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

All of the loons.

[Dan Bernstein]

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[Dan Bernstein]

Boy, did I put the Bernstein kiss of death on old Jesus Martin.

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

Kiss.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Davis Martin. I was.

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

See people have asked for. For this show to talk about more White Sox talk. More White Sox baseball talk. We did it yesterday. What'd you do? 12 to 2.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I. I cashiered your best pitcher and I drove up his ERA by a point. Yeah, that's that one. I'll wear that one.

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

He I.

[Dan Bernstein]

If I did my math right in. In 78.1 innings, he'd given up 21 earned runs. That's an ERA of 2.41.

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

That's very good.

[Dan Bernstein]

Now when we add the 3.1 innings pitched, he's now at 81⅔ and he gave up nine earned runs. So that's 30. And now it's an ERA of 3.31.

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

It's a point higher. Yeah. Hey, yuck.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sorry.

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

People have asked for you to talk more. White Sox.

[Dan Bernstein]

You did it.

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

And they lose 12 to 2.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, I, that's on me. It's on me. I was, I, and I was talking about all the star power in the game, all the All Stars, and he'll still be an All Star. But that just, that drove his ERA up a point. And I got it.

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

He gave up. Was it Jones on the Yankees? His first career major league home run?

[Dan Bernstein]

I gotta wear that one. And, and meanwhile, it was a very strange TV night last night. Yes, it was. Because you have, you've got Doofus and Pleasak who have zero chemistry.

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

Zero.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's just like they, Taking turns. And like, you said this and it sounded like they were, they weren't even talking to each other. And then you have Alex Cohen and Cliff Floyd.

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

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Who are fine. But like, where is everybody? Yeah. What are we doing? Where's everybody?

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

Yeah. The only regular that was there was the guy you don't want there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right, right. Like, everybody's like, where, where are my comfortable voices? And there's been a lot of really good television, though I will say, and something I didn't mention yesterday on the Matt Shaw triple that hit in the corner on the line by the dirt. Did you see that? The marquee broadcast, the director. They got the shot.

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

Oh, above. Above the.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Of the divot of the ball in the crushed brick.

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

Yeah, it was great.

[Dan Bernstein]

That, See, that's television. That's what TV can do. That's what. When you, when you are actually curious about things and you treat it journalistically and you can get a shot like that.

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

Yeah, that was great, because they were, they were reviewing it at the time.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes.

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

And then, and then Marquis gives you the shot of the divot and you say, oh, okay, yeah, that's clearly a

[Dan Bernstein]

fair ball to get somebody over there to point the camera down there. And I don't know if that is actually usable as evidence by the replay officials, the replay umpires. But I just thought the, the quality of TV there. And I will also say this. I. When, when it's one of these gorgeous summer nights at Wrigley, and there are many. There are many. And on the night, usually on those nights, we've got a, you know, off of our main bedroom, we have a porch outside that looks just toward, you know, Waveland and that, that side, it looks south, and I know how gorgeous it is. And it does look amazing on that HD broadcast and the Megalodon camera. You don't have to always tell me that what I'm looking at is beautiful. Just show it to me and I can judge that. But that park and those, the light that they can get there is unlike any other ballpark anywhere. Those vistas and some of the golden hour ship shots that they get when you can see little moes of dust and cottonwood in the air on television, it's, it's, it's really amazing stuff. But you don't have to beat me over the head with how beautiful it is. That's all I'm saying there.

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

So, I mean, I do this with a little trepidation. The starting pitchers tonight for the game two of Yankee socks, Anthony K. Carlos Rodon. Okay, I think we should just leave White Sox talk at that. I don't think you need to contribute anymore to hurting their chances of winning

[Dan Bernstein]

the game tonight by saying their players are good.

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

Man, you went really hard in on it yesterday and then look what happened. Yeah, it really is. That's really. That was the, one of the strongest Bernstein kiss of deaths I've ever experienced.

[Dan Bernstein]

There's the kiss of life. Look, I gave Michael Conforto the kiss of life, remember? I know. It ran out.

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

It ran out. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

I called him the corpse of Michael Conforto. And then for the first two months, his WRC plus was 200.

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

Yeah, he was, he was Babe Conforto for a while.

[Dan Bernstein]

And now. Bad. Yes, now he is. That's, that's probably over because baseball and guys.

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

Yeah, and he's bad now and he'll still get pinch hitting opportunities for guys that are like three for three in the game.

[Dan Bernstein]

So.

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

I know you've been doing great. Have a seat, Babe.

[Dan Bernstein]

Grab a bat. Ah, sit down. Yeah, you know, we don't need any more out of you.

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

We're just gonna need any more hits from you.

[Dan Bernstein]

So we're gonna keep sending Ballesteros out there because pop ups and weak ground outs, you know, it's one of the two. He's going to make contact. He doesn't strike out easily, but it's either going to be underneath the ball or on top of the ball. Just not right there in the middle of the ball.

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

Yeah, and you're describing Alex Bregman as well, too, but he has the strikeouts. Yeah. Slow ground out or pop up to the infield.

[Dan Bernstein]

We could be. And hey, you know, hey, do you

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

know that area behind the dirt where there's the grass and so there's there's grass and then outfield dirt.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, that.

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

Yes. Ball there.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's good. There's fewer people out there.

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

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Hit the ball there hard.

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

Yes, that would, that would be. That would be advised. Or yeah, just stop hitting it softly to the guys standing in the dirt and you hit it right.

[Dan Bernstein]

Like make them move at least that's good. Same goes for Nico Horner too. I. I would, I would tell him the same thing that if you're going to make your outs with contact, he hit it hard, far away from the people. Right. Hit it where there was fewer people. See Easy game. Easy game.

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[Dan Bernstein]

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[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Wow.

[Dan Bernstein]

Double wow.

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

Double.

[Dan Bernstein]

It shows you the power of New York and the power of Victor Wembanyama and everybody else on that spurs team. As far as the spurs contribution to this goes, get used to it. I think you'll be seeing a lot of them. And when you start saying, well, Oklahoma City, Indiana, we're talking market size and that's why it was bad. Well, I mean, look at San Antonio, one of the smallest markets you got. And that was the, the, I thought the Western Conference finals were better than the Finals. That's me personally. I thought the best basketball I've seen probably in my life, the best sustained, competitive, highest level of basketball that I've ever seen played was that series. Now maybe that'll change next year because every year sports get better. Every year that goes by, sports are played better, faster, stronger, bigger. All of that because sports evolve. So. But I called it basketball crack. It was just that good. That much where you just sort of sat and watched the television throughout the Western Conference finals. But that's. That's a huge deal for the NBA to throw up those kind of numbers. And yeah, the. The Knicks. The Knicks did it for you. We'll see if there's a different opponent for either Oklahoma City or San Antonio in next year's finals. And it'll be either Oklahoma City or San Antonio in next year's finals. It's just a matter of if the. I don't think the Knicks can sustain this. I think it was a remarkable special run. And if you want to say Bert's change that she burst into Knicks doubter. Excuse me. I'm doing the wrong guy. Why does he ate the Knicks? I don't. I just think that this was one of those really special years. It's going to be awfully hard to replicate with. With the way health allowed them, the fact that Mitchell Robinson came back, that they had their guys, that Brunson didn't get hurt despite all the punishment that he's been through and what he's asked to do at his size. But that is that those are huge numbers in an increasingly fract viewership, an increasingly disparate viewership where everything feels like it's a niche somewhere to have 20 million people come together to watch a finals like it's party, like it's 1998. That's. That's pretty special.

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

Did you see the group of Knicks players that were on Good Morning America?

[Dan Bernstein]

I didn't.

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

It appeared that OG might have been impaired. Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

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

It was really. You. You got to look it up. It was. It was really. It was really entertaining.

[Dan Bernstein]

OG Anobi. I thought he was pretty straight laced.

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

Okay, maybe. Maybe I. Maybe this. The things I saw and the interpretation of. Of the visit was incorrect. But.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. There. The headline just said nick Star, OG Anunobi's hilarious blank stare is going viral.

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

Yes. He didn't have a whole lot to say. He just kind of sat there and smiled.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

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

Even when spoken to directly,

[Dan Bernstein]

it wasn't

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

a whole lot to offer.

[Dan Bernstein]

I. I think that might just be OG that might just be who he is. Maybe he was nervous. I don't know. Maybe. Sure.

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

That's a possibility.

[Dan Bernstein]

I saw something on my television last Night that made me rethink something.

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

And I.

[Dan Bernstein]

And the memory was accessible enough. And I want to see if you remember this. And I talked about it on the air at the time when I went. When Beth and I went to see Green Day at Wrigley Field. Okay, what year was it? Was it, you know, 2017, maybe 2018? It was green Day at Wrigley, and we had really good seats, was excited about the show, and the show was mid. It was all right. It was mid. And one thing I remember is somewhere near the end, or maybe it was one of the encores, they were doing one of their hits, and Billy Joe Armstrong stopped. He's like, wrigley Field, Chicago. And people are going crazy. Chicago, Wrigley Field. Yeah. And then he goes, illinois.

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

Oh, I remember this. Okay, right.

[Dan Bernstein]

And then. And, like, Illinois. And then everybody's like, yeah. And then he goes, the Midwest. And the response was muted, to say the least, because there wasn't this. This burst of regional pride of, like, yeah, we're from the Midwest. That's better than other geographical regions of arbitrary borders.

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

People start chanting, the Southwest.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right down with the Eastern seaboard. The Southern Plains can suck it.

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

That's right.

[Dan Bernstein]

What? Huh? It was.

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

It was just northwestern Illinois or northwestern United States Blows.

[Dan Bernstein]

Just Midwest all the way. A little strange.

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

That's so funny. I totally remember that now for you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Do you remember it? I'm just thinking, like, okay. And I just thought it was a little weird. And was it Jabari Parker, who, after the draft, when he was. Went to Milwaukee, he said, so I'm from Chicago, and I love Chicago, Milwaukee, all of the Great Lakes.

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

Yeah, it was.

[Dan Bernstein]

I think it was Jabari Parker when he came to the Bulls. They didn't bring me here to play defense.

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

All right.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, cool. Wait. So let me bring this back. Let me bring this home. So I was watching just, you know, the corner of my eye, and I realized it's a. It's a commercial for Miller Lite. And I forgot if it started with Christopher Walken or which one it was, but it ended with a logo. And. And the statement it said. It said Miller. Like something to the effect of born and still brood proudly in the Midwest. And up came a logo, a Specialized logo in Miller light color and font of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. And I don't remember if Ohio was in there. It might have been. And it just said Midwest.

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

Yeah.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Was this.

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

Was this during a basketball game or the Cubs game? Because. Okay, it was Cubs game. Yeah, because we were on the Couch. And it. It jumped out at both of us. Like, we were just like, what with the Midwest.

[Dan Bernstein]

What that was. That was during the Cub game.

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

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Like, proudly. So, again, doubling back on this idea of some kind of regional pride.

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

Our region's better than your region.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. Like, I will only drink a beer that is brewed in my region. No anchor steam for me.

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

Wait, and it's Miller Lights brewed in. Is it brewed in Milwaukee, right?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. Still pray. It was. It was. It was Born in Chicago.

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

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Brewed in Milwaukee and L, I, T, E. I've told the story. If it was originally property of Meister Brown, Miller bought Meister Brow so they could own L, I, T, E. And that it's. It's brewed here. I don't know if they were counting the fact that L, I, T, E was. Was Chicago's Meister Brow that came up with that. And it's. I. I just never felt like. Wait. All right, all right. It's still brewed in the Midwest.

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

Good.

[Dan Bernstein]

Because I only patronize Midwestern businesses because of my pride in this region. It's one thing. It's one thing to have state pride, which I still think is a little weird. Also, it is like. Like most states are mostly. Alabama, even if they're blue states, they're mostly like, the land is all. You know, because there's the whole. The map thing, and land. Look at all red. Okay. Land doesn't vote. Cattle don't vote. That whole thing. But, like, that whole idea of our state is better than your state, and I'll defend everything within the borders of this state. That's just stupid.

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

All right, we got a problem here, though, Dan. Yeah. So Miller Lite is primarily brewed at Molson Coors breweries across the United States. So its flagship brewing is Milwaukee. Right. The first. The original recipe for Miller Light was developed and first brewed at Fort Worth Brewery in Texas.

[Dan Bernstein]

Mm.

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

Other significant Molson Coors brewing facilities today include Trenton, Ohio, Albany, Georgia, Ecton, Virginia,

[Dan Bernstein]

and Golden, Colorado, into Albany, Georgia.

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

So, okay. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

But primarily, I think it's brewed in Milwaukee. And if they're included.

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

For the Midwest, yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

But in. Maybe for everybody. I don't.

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

Because, like, the. Okay, so the Trenton, Ohio one supplies a large portion of the Midwest and Eastern markets. Albany, Georgia, is the Southern production. Virginia supplies the east coast, and Golden, Colorado supplies the Western region. So a majority of what comes through here would be the Ohio and the Milwaukee campus.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right, well, I'm still. I. I'm going to give. I'm Allow them if they want to make a logo. They went to their graphics department and they said, we need to reinforce the Midwesternness of this. Maybe they. Maybe it's all driven by market share and the people don't realize. Well, you should be proud. It's one thing to have a hometown brew, right? Hometown beer, everybody. That's how it used to be. Everybody had their hometown beer. They drink what's locally brewed. Just like potato chips still. Everybody's got their local potato chips. There's some that are good and some that are bad. But this is what you grew up with. This is what we have here or. Or some awful tasting ginger ale or root beer or something. And then everything was globalized and the people lost their sense of local beer identity, I guess. But if we are really having multiple states as part of our local beer identity and say, well, where do you draw the line of beers you will and won't drink? Well, I don't know. Mississippi River, Nothing. I will not drink anything brewed west of the Mississippi river so I can keep my regionalism with my beat. So point being, maybe Billy Joe Armstrong was right. Maybe.

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

Yeah, maybe you guys should have cheered louder.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That maybe Billy Joe was ahead of his time and for him to. To. To take it to escalate. Wrigley Field. All right, we're all here in Wrigley Field. Yeah, Wrigley Field. Yeah. Chicago. Yeah. Wrigley Field is in Chicago. I'm from Chicago. We're proud. Yeah. Illinois, okay. Yeah, Illinois, fine. Compared to Asia. Sure, sure.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Yay.

[Dan Bernstein]

The Midwest, Okay. Multiple states now.

[Sponsor/Advertiser Voice]

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[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

That's.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, cool. The United States of America.

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

See, but he didn't do that, though, did he? See, that's where he fell short.

[Dan Bernstein]

He should have taken North America. The continent. North America. North America. The Northern hemisphere, right? Yeah. Northern hemisphere. Screw you. We don't like the way the water flushes down your toilets in the southern hemisphere. Our toilets flush the right way, yours flush the right wrong way. Your summer is our winter, and our winter is your summer. They're great together, but the.

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

Come on. We're on. We're on Earth.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Earth.

[Dan Bernstein]

Earth. Go, Earth. See, that will bring us all together when we're threatened. When finally the probe comes from planet Weeboo and we all end up finally looking at each other like brothers and sisters in earthling humanity.

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

Well, we might get more aliens coming down if they see the reflection pool.

[Dan Bernstein]

David Roth said it looks like they're brewing Baby Yodas in There, stirring up, like, a big vat of cheese. They're sort of raking the curds through and out. They're forming baby Yodas. That's brilliant. That. I'm.

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

I'm.

[Dan Bernstein]

That is contributing to my overall view of things that are happening. If you just think of it like a Marx Brothers movie, if you have. If you're privileged enough, if you have. If you have the privilege to think of it as a Marx Brothers movie, it makes everything easier. I want to. I want to finish up because there is a story here that is so horrible, you have to laugh or you're gonna scream or cry. But first. First, if you got a World cup thought, express the thought on my bookie. Don't just express it to somebody and say, I think that Cape Verde is gonna go and take the whole thing at a thousand to one or whatever. Go ahead, bet on it. Go to my bookie. Root for that country. Cape Verde is popular. And they tied Espana, even though Espana is better than they are, as I understand it. And a tie was like a win. It was a massive upset even though it was a tie. So act on it. And if you think they're the favorites, overrated, go get them. That's what makes the tournament fun. 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You've been doing this for a long time, but we think that we can do it differently in a way that changes the way you look at this particular business or this particular service, and we're going to provide it differently because we're thinking of a new paradigm. Well, you got to give credit to this business. In Brazil, when I first saw the story, I'll be honest, I didn't really think it was going to rise to the level of content because of how some of these Things were phrased. I'm just going to read the USA Today story. I wanted to pick something neutral and just this, this will serve as, as the example what I'm talking about. A woman on a bungee jumping excursion in southeastern Brazil was thrown to her death over the weekend when company employees allegedly failed to secure her safety equipment, according to local authorities. And you think, oh, my God, that's awful. The harness came off. It wasn't secured on there. And we all know some of these and we've done it. When I went parasailing and they hand you a disclaimer that is, it is some kind of. It's Spanglish. And it's like a handwritten disclaimer, like if you die, you just slam into a building. And we did it anyway. It was probably stupid and I was fine. My poor sister fell down on the dock and got dragged across the dock before she lifted up and was screaming in pain and bleeding the entire time they brought her around. It was awful. The boat just went like, oh, my God. They dragged her like 10ft. Sorry. I'm laughing, Jill. I apologize. So the woman was identified. And citing a police report, Sao Paulo officials said the woman was bungee jumping at Ponte de Escalator, known as Skeleton Bridge in Limeira, a city in southeastern Brazil. It's about 130ft high. And it said her safety equipment was not properly secured during the jump. Okay, well, that's, that's awful. And I'm picturing something complicated here. That there was maybe the, the arm wasn't through the armhole or there was a buckle that broke or just. That's not what happened. And they buried it at the bottom. Video circulating on social media, which I have not watched and will not watch, shows three employees lifting her into the air and then launching her off the 130 foot bridge while she's wearing a harness. There is no rope attached to her. It's not what it says in the lead. It's not. They failed to secure her safety equipment. They didn't attach the rope. The rope is key here. That's the difference between bungee jumping and throwing someone off a bridge. Yeah, like the key. That to me, that's like this is poorly phrased. They threw a woman off a bridge. It wasn't that her equipment failed or that he wasn't properly secured. They didn't tie her to anything. That's not bungee jumping. That's throwing somebody off a bridge. And appropriately, three men, ages 27, 32 and 42, were arrested for Homicide involving recklessness or knowing that one's actions could lead to death. Officials have questioned six people at the Limera police station in southeastern Brazil. Six people provided statements and those three remain in custody. Lawyers representing the three men said in a statement that the individuals were experienced in bungee jumping and this was their first fatality after operating for years. You know, we've done this a long time now. What I want to know is, is this their first fatality when not attaching a rope?

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

Yeah. And she was, she was only 21.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's awful. Yeah, it's awful. Local officials alleged that the team operating the jump had no proper credentials and weren't authorized to be there. That's going to be a problem. I don't know how, how tight the Brazilian rules are and regulations are, but, you know, unlicensed, unsupported, unregulated bungee jumping that isn't like, unless they were advertising discount bungee jumping. We do it without the cord. I don't know what's disclosed. And they say, hey, you know, if you read the fine print, you got to pay extra for the, for the cord.

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

We don't use rope. I, I've never gone bungee jumping. I never will go bungee jumping. There is zero.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, no, no, no.

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

Zero desire in my, my body to, to jump off a bridge or in this case, be thrown off. But all that being said, if you're the, if you're the bungee jumper, wouldn't you at any point say, hey, guys, there's, there's no rope attached?

[Dan Bernstein]

To me, yeah, this, it gets a little close to victim blaming. But, but maybe.

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

And I don't, I don't. I'm sorry, I don't, I don't. That's not what I mean to do.

[Dan Bernstein]

But if they told her, you're set, 1, 2, 3. We're going on three. Like you're, you're presuming these professional bungee jumping people know to attach the rope.

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

Yeah, because like Dan, they, they lift her up over their heads and they, they have to walk. They walk out five or six feet before they let, Like at one point that one of those guys was like, oh, there's no rope attached.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Or that you have a built in procedure where you double check whether or not there's a rope attached.

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

Because it's the first time I've ever seen a bungee jump video where someone is lifted over people's heads and then thrown. Yeah, usually I've seen it where people jump off or you just, you fall back. I'VE never seen someone get thrown.

[Dan Bernstein]

See, to me, it's scary enough to think about when even if they've calibrated the proper length and elasticity of the rope, that's not a constant. Because if you have something elastic, how long has it been in the sun? How long has it been dried out? How has it been rained on? There's. And no matter what you're always taking. Even if they say with the finest calculations and testing that we know exactly what this rope is gonna do, it can still snap or you can. Or it can be too long or it can have gotten too stretchy and you. You fall down as if you have no rope on.

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

Yeah. And. Yeah, she. She fell 131ft.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's too many feet.

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

Yeah.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

But I.

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

It's a terrible story.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's a. It is an. It's an awful story. It's an awful story. It's just still amazing to me that it could have possibly had. I didn't believe it. I thought it was fake. With. For the various listeners who have emailed this to me and say, you got to see this. You got to. And first of all, no, I don't have to see it. I don't want to see it. Reading about it is enough. But I just.

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

The way the.

[Dan Bernstein]

When I read the USA Today story, I thought that you put it in the lead that they didn't attach the rope.

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

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

You don't. Later, at the very bottom of the story, when you talk like there's any number of. I'm sure, safety equipment failures where the material of the harness rips or a clip comes off or whatever, the D rings or whatever don't hold. It's another thing.

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

If you just did not attach the rope.

[Dan Bernstein]

We didn't. The key to the bungee jumping is the bungee.

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

Yeah. The headline, woman murdered at bungee jump by not attaching rope. Like woman murdered is the headline.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, killed is different than murdered.

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

Okay. Woman killed.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. Because murdered is. Would be. They did it on purpose. Yeah, you're right.

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

What's the charge? What do they say for the charges?

[Dan Bernstein]

Or.

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

Didn't say. Did you not read that?

[Dan Bernstein]

I did. And technically they said they have been held for homicide involving recklessness or knowing that one's actions could lead to death. I'd have to know more about the translation of that law. But it would. If it's. If it's just negligence. If it's. I forgot. I'm not. Is it. Is it. Would it be manslaughter here?

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

Well, I mean. I mean, Homicide means killing.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. But you can have negligent homicide.

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

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a criminal lawyer. I'm not in law enforcement. I just know that that's. That's a bad bungee jumping company, because I think if they say, well, it was just this one. That. That was the other part, too. They're experienced in bungee jumping. This is their first fatality after operating for years. I don't care,

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

because you.

[Dan Bernstein]

You shouldn't. It's like. Well, you get one. Occasionally we forget to attach the rope, so. But usually we do. Usually we attach the rope. No.

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

Well, yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Lawyer's plan.

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

Yeah, it's. It's. It probably looks like criminal homicide, because excusable homicide, accidental, unintentional killing. I mean, but there's negligence here.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's. Yeah, I think.

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

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Either way, not. Not criminal.

[Narrator/Commercial Voice]

Great.

[Dan Bernstein]

And I think that the. The takeaway is, first of all, I. I would say don't ever bungee jump.

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

That. That's what I mean. I was gonna say that. Like, I just. Like, if there's. If there's no. If there isn't a specific reason to do something that could cause you harm, don't do it.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's like elective surgeries. Yes, I. I agree with that 100%, but that's a. That's. That's rough right there.

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

Terrible.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. Now that I think about. I probably shouldn't have gone parasailing either.

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

Yeah, I've not. I. I haven't gone parasailing. I. I won't. Not my. When we were in Turks and Caicos of. Three of the boys went. And. But you start off on the boat. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

So you're not in the water across

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

the wood pier, like your sister. Like, did she pay extra for that?

[Dan Bernstein]

I probably should have.

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

Hey, we could start you in the boat or we could drag you across this wooden plank here. What would you prefer?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I started on the pier. You're just supposed to run.

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

Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

But she ran and fell.

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

Yeah. You're in the boat, and then you go. And then they. You start going up.

[Dan Bernstein]

So. Yeah, the thing about parasailing, you're wearing a parachute. People have been slammed into buildings. I've. Yeah. You've seen the video of. Of those mishaps, like in Canton.

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

Really? I've never seen that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, how far.

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

How close are you to buildings?

[Dan Bernstein]

Pretty close.

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

Jesus.

[Dan Bernstein]

When they bring you back, you got to come past the hotel, and then it depends on the wind. You know, you can get the wind can get you.

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

Yeah, there's so what our kids did, Paris Island. There was no chance of hitting a hotel. I mean, they would. The boat would have had to go onto the sand and up into the resort. And so if that, the boat can do that, that's pretty. It wasn't like a duck boat either. So there's no tires on it. But if you're doing a parasailing, where you could possibly land and like hit a building, probably a bad spot to do it. That's all I'm going to say.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I mean, I, I went by the building, but they, they also said, hey, if you pull on this thing, you'll go this way. If you pull on this thing, you this way. So when we were swinging around, getting close to the building, I forget which one, whether it was opposite or not, but I was like, it was like kind of, you know, pulling on the thing to say, all right, let's, let's give the building a wide berth here.

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

Listen, hey, don't mind these windmills here on the beach. You're not going to get anywhere near those.

[Dan Bernstein]

Right. Or the giant wood chipper. You're definitely not going to land in the wood chipper.

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

Don't ask why that's there.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, they just, they chip a lot of wood here and it's as big,

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

so you might promise you won't land in it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes. So we started with.

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

You do.

[Dan Bernstein]

We started this edition of DBU talking about the wood that should be gifted to the Bears on the fifth anniversary of their bid on the Arlington Heights land. And we finish with parasailing into a wood chipper. And you only get that. Thankfully, you only get that on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. That has been brought to you by Chicago Window guys and our dear friend Russ Armstrong at 847-302-9171 and in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports.

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