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Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 312 sports.
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Dan Bernstein
It's Dan Bernstein unfiltered on 312 sports. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie. The Olympics have come to an end. The fortnight in Milan Cortina is over. And there the medals have been handed out and now people will fly back and we will resume regular hockey. We'll see who remains interested in hockey. Or once hockey gets back to being NHL hockey and people who are all hockey crazed will now be like, oh, there's, there's other hockey and they go back to other teams. Okay.
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Co-Host
Yeah. I wonder how many people are flying back to the US On Cash Patel's plane.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm.
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Co-Host
I'm interested in keeping. What? Dude, what happened? Oh, did I, did I say something?
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Dan Bernstein
That video. He's pouring spraying beer all over the place.
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Co-Host
But he wasn't there though, Dan.
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Dan Bernstein
No, he wasn't there. Although, although they have authenticated the video of, of him there. I, I, my sour told me. This is what, this is just what I'm hearing about why the FBI director was there. They had actionable intelligence that suggested that it only he had it only this is why in Tucson. They have no idea what's going on. They have no idea. That poor Pima county guy has no concept what's happening. But I think Cash Patel had actionable intelligence that somewhere at the bottom of that case of beer was Nancy Guthrie.
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Co-Host
Oh, okay.
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Dan Bernstein
That, that's. He.
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Co-Host
Well, that makes sense then.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. So he was working. Can't you see? He was working on this pressing national case that has everyone on tenterhooks. That's why he was there. He was. He just happened to be there. It was a complete coincidence that some important information, a clue to find Nancy Guthrie was in that locker room.
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Co-Host
And was she at the bottom of all that beer?
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Dan Bernstein
I have not. I don't know. But it was worth it. It certainly was worth him trying. Damn it. He's working. He has to find these things. You never know where that clue is going to be, where that. Where that break in the case could lead him.
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Co-Host
Yeah, I think you should. I think we should do away with the NHL and just have international hockey.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Co-Host
As a season.
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Dan Bernstein
That's fine.
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Co-Host
I'm down for that. That's very entertaining, but we'll talk about that later in our Olympic update.
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Dan Bernstein
I like international hockey better. Kind of. They don't punch each other and they don't waste time.
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Co-Host
Very excited.
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Dan Bernstein
We have to set the tone by kicking somebody in the nuts or punching them in the face, and then. And then we get momentum. You don't hear that with international hockey.
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Co-Host
No, it's about playing hockey.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. They play hockey. It's. It's better that way. Yeah. So all good? Yeah. So. Yes. But the most important thing, though, is the fact that this is a big week for the Bears and the whole stadium thing, and this is also a big week to stop the whole clown show. And it sounded like that is exactly what JB Pritzker was saying in the statement when he said the Bears need to step up and be public about what it is they really want. The Bears need to make their intentions known. Those intentions could be. They want to continue to talk to both states. I think they need to clarify that, and they eventually did. Did you notice that on Saturday that Kevin Warren released a statement to Danny Ecker once again saying, oh, of course we're still interested in talking to Arlington Heights. They were cleaning this up. This. This was a. A complete clusterfuck. And the Bears have to dig out of this and figure out who's speaking for whom and when and how. Then we can get down to business. But at the moment, the State of Illinois isn't quite sure who's representing the actual interests of the ownership of the Bears. And maybe the best thing, finally, is for George McCaskey to get on a plane and go down to Springfield and talk to people. I know that's why they hired Kevin Warren, but this is not going great. And at some point, you got to cut out all these middle people you hired because you hired Kevin Warren to represent you, and then he hired Karen Murphy. And I hold the layers and layers and layers of vice presidents. And all I know is Kevin Warren has spent millions of Bears dollars both in their hiring, in all the staffing and in the taxes they're still paying for another year on that land. Nothing is happening here. And at some point George McCaskey has to grab this entire process and say, I'm George McCaskey, I'm the person in charge of the Bears. Here's what I actually want. Because at the moment, I don't think he's being well served by the way this is being handled locally, politically and otherwise. And he's being told that.
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Co-Host
I'm really curious though, if there's a, if there's a fracture in that relationship in regards to Kevin Warren not properly representing the McCaskey family, then why is he still here or why hasn't that been resolved internally within the Bears?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. But there's no more time to wait around and figure out if it's going to self Resolve or. George McCaskey has been getting messages internally and externally that they need a clarity of purpose and now's not the time for screwing around and grandstanding. Now's the time for clarity of purpose. And there's been a lot of talk of somehow there's this four dimensional chess game being played. There are a lot of people who are under the thrall of Kevin Warren who are painting this fumbling around as some sort of high level strategy. I still don't exactly know what it is Kevin Warren does. He, he earned a ton of capital with whatever he had to do with the Ben Johnson hiring. However he was involved, whatever he did, whatever he did to, to make the Bears a place that could get Ben Johnson awesome. That's great. And he deserves all the credit in the world. He's burned through all that capital as far as I'm concerned. Figure this thing out here, you took, you took something that, that seemed clear and made it unclear.
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Co-Host
It's a big thing to say though, without knowing what part he actually played in getting Ben Johnson here.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly. But I, I was like, what if
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Co-Host
he played no part?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know.
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Co-Host
There was no capital built up.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I don't know. I, I would just say.
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Co-Host
We know in Minnesota too, that he wasn't the reason why they got that stadium built. He was the front man. He wasn't the guy behind the scenes getting the actual deal done itself.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, the, the front man work here is not accomplishing anything.
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Co-Host
No. It's making things worse. Yeah, it's me and I get it. And you know, and I, and we've. We've said this about Kevin Warren, that he's gotten a little grace, at least from me, in the fact that he came into a situation that the Bears cluster fucked from the beginning by buying the land without working any kind of leverage, any kind of situation at all, to gain some favor or benefit on their own end. It's like, here's the land. Oh, now go get us a stadium. Oh, well, maybe we'll stay downtown. Maybe we'll find a new location downtown. Oh, Indiana wants us to come now. Iowa wants us to be there. We're going to float one out on Lake Michigan. Oh, no, we really want to be in Arlington Heights. So I get he walked into a situation that was, you know, 30 yards downfield before he even got here, and I get that. But he should have positioned himself in a way to work from that angle instead of trying to, oh, no, we might stay in Chicago. It just. The whole. The whole thing was. Was clustered before he got here. He's made it worse.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, Thursday was a very, very strange and silly day, and then Friday didn't make things any better. And then you had the cleanup with that little statement that came out on Saturday that nobody saw, which is basically, hey, Cranes. Yeah, of course we're still interested in Arlington Heights. Of course we're. And I don't know if somebody forced that. That phone call. I don't know if somebody said, kevin, call somebody publicly. And. And. But I always want an owner to be in the room where it happens. The owner themselves. That person, not a representative, not a proxy, not an agent. The owner.
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Co-Host
Like, I get you want that, but if the owner doesn't want that, that's the way it's going to go.
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Dan Bernstein
But that's why you get things like this. Then say what you want about Reinsdorf. Love him, hate him, success or failure, he's always there. He'll say, yeah, let's. Let's go have coffee. Let's go have lunch. And he. He will always, when it was when he was flirting with the Nashville mayor, like, whatever it was, he's there even at 90. He's not going to let anybody negotiate his deals for him when. When it comes to nut cutting time. So let's. I'm just very curious to see. This is a big week for the Bears to get their arms around this, figure out who represents what, whose interests are being served here through all of this, and be honest with people.
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Co-Host
All right, well, let me ask you this question. If this is a big week for the Bears to get their arms around the situation as you say, why is that? If you truly feel the Bears aren't leaving the state of Illinois and that they will end up. Because, what did you say last week? 90% sure, 99% sure that they'll be Arlington Heights, then why is this a big week? Because this is when they're not going to Indiana.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, because Illinois could call their bluff completely. That. That still could happen. They could say, you know what? We're not going to vote on this deal that's going to allow you to set up a pilot payment in lieu of taxes, that we may not go ahead, go to Indiana. They could do that. And you got to be prepared for Pritzker just to be like, all right, I don't want to play these games anymore. And if you want to be the guy that took the Bears out, that's on you. And that we're not even going to vote on this. So let's see what goes on in Springfield this week. Let's see how eager any forces are to bring people together and try to vote on some of this stuff. Or they could, if they just kick the can down the road and say, hey, Bears, we, we. You didn't need to play this bad faith thing and, And. And whip Indiana up into a frenzy because that was the other thing that they apparently wanted, that the Bears apparently wanted all these Indiana lawmakers to act a fool like they did, pretending there was a done deal when there clearly wasn't, and say, they're coming, they're coming. And they wanted parades down the street and. And that strike up the band. And that was. That was all part of seemingly some sort of gambit that hasn't moved the needle at all. So reel it back in. Realize that that didn't necessarily work, and just sit down and talk in some kind of good faith in a way that actually represents the organization and figure this out. Let's be adults.
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Co-Host
If that's the case. Dan, I honestly think. I don't know how Kevin Warren can keep this project moving forward on how Kevin Warren can stay in charge of it. I really don't. If George McCaskey needs to get involved in that regard and say, all right, hey, I'm bringing the adults to the table, and if George McCaskey is that adult, then why is Kevin Warren even still gonna be there?
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Dan Bernstein
I have yet to see tangible evidence other than what they've done within the office to move some people and rearrange some departments. There's been a lot of activity, but zero accomplishment other than the hiring of Ben Johnson, which is A major accomplishment,
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Co-Host
which we don't know how. I don't know if he was in on that.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know if they walked into it. I don't know if they completely backed into it. Right. I don't know if. I don't know if Ben Johnson said, hey, I want to coach the Bears, make and. And just said, hey, make it work. Give me a reasonable number, reasonable amount of power, and I'm going to come in and coach the Bears. Just because that was just it. He wanted it. I don't know.
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Co-Host
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Because.
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Co-Host
It doesn't really seem like the Bears had to sell Ben Johnson on coming here to become. To become the head coach.
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Dan Bernstein
Not in their narrative.
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Co-Host
No, no, you're.
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Dan Bernstein
No, you're right.
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Co-Host
And we don't know on Ben Johnson's side of things. You know what that was like. One thing I do know about Kevin Warren is that he loves being in the spotlight of the football side of things, which is not what I like for my team president, who literally.
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Dan Bernstein
He literally stands in the doorway of the locker room and everybody falls into, like, these phalanxes behind him.
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Co-Host
Right. He's like. He's center frame every single time.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep.
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Co-Host
Not while you're there, man. Not while you're there. Shovels in the ground in arlington heights before 2025 ends.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Co-Host
It's February 23rd, 2026, and it's gotten further away from, if I can use the football term, the end zone than it was before he even got here.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, that's why the next couple days, I'd say. I'd say the Next. The next 48 to 72 hours, where people can come back to work and say, all right, where are we really on this? What's actually happening? What was that? And then try to unscrew some of this stuff. We're going to see what happens, and we're going to stay on top of it. Trust me. You know, whenever the stakes are high, my bookie is where you turn bets into bankroll. There's always a big matchup on the schedule. Everybody's watching, everybody has a take. And no matter the sport, the props can be as fun as the final score. You maybe you learned that from the last couple of weeks that you can get excited about sports where you don't even really know the rules. But my bookie allows you to have all kinds of fun because they're prop board for all the sports. Deep fun to play. That's player performances, that's game milestones. That's everything in between. I'M going to have a prop coming for you at the end of this. When we do our DBU picks, I have one for tonight. It's the kind of action that keeps things interesting. So if there's a time to get in, it's now, now, right now that we're, we're back to the, to the other sport, the sports you know better. It's one account, one wallet. You bet the spread. You live bet during the action. You can jump into the casino during halftime or between games. Everything is in one place and that place is MyBookie AG. So go there, use the code DBU and get your first bet covered up to 500 bucks. And then if it doesn't hit, you've got a bet back bonus token and you can run it back. That's MyBookie AG. The code, the three letters for this show. Dan Bernstein unfiltered is DBU. Just those three letters. That's the code that's for your bet back bonus. Then you're not just watching the action, you're making it pay with my bookie.
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Dan Bernstein
Meanwhile, it appears that based on a story that broke last night on WFLD Fox 32 that the Chicago Park District cannot wait for the Bears to leave one way or another because they already have a plan for Soldier Field. And here's what's cool with this story. The actual PowerPoint is included. So they have the actual plan that was presented with every page of the PowerPoint presentation here. And this is pretty cool that they want to transform Soldier Field into a massive concert and special event venue. They're looking at a $630 million price tag. And this was the draft of the presentation. It's 130 million in direct stadium renovations, including a new sound system and new dressing rooms. And then 500 million in surrounding infrastructure to finally tackle traffic management and parking. Woohoo. Talk about long overdue. Park district officials say a chunk of the cost is covered by the Bears. The Bears will owe nearly 90 million if they break their lease before 2033. Park district officials are pitching state lawmakers on a funding package that would include money from the state's road fund that's paid by motor fuel taxes to help with the infrastructure upgrades. Okay. It's reasonable. The spokesperson for the park district, Michelle Lemons, didn't confirm or deny anything, but it sounds like that they are. This is real. Because she said our responsibilities to ensure that Chicago's lakefront stadium continues to serve as a strong public asset that supports park programming and maintenance across the city, vital public services and the broader tourism economy anchored by the museum campus. Now, I didn't know the money on this. We as a city, those of us citizens of Chicago, we're going to be better off without the Bears. The Bears account for less than 20% of the revenue generated by Soldier Field.
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Co-Host
I didn't realize it was that low.
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Dan Bernstein
It's unbelievable. The rest comes from concerts, international soccer matches and year round parking in that garage for the museums. So when you go to the aquarium and you gotta park there.
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Co-Host
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
You have to park and that. So that's what's making the money. And the CEO of the park district said there's an opportunity for more concerts, more special events. And the additional concerts will more than cover the Bears revenue loss. The current lease prohibits the stadium from hosting any non Bears event within five days of a home game. That means losing the Bears opens the door for a busier August and September and a more accessible Soldier Field all year. They said one of the missed opportunities in the early 2000s was to make it more of a central war memorial as it was originally built. There are ways to open it up to the public to make it more of a destination for people coming to the museum campus, which could generate more revenue. There's a private effort for a permanent veterans memorial and a Chicago Sports hall of Fame to be housed at Soldier Field. And the revenue generation possibilities are here too because the city's on the hook for half a billion related to the cost of the renovation in OH3. That's paid by the 2% hotel tax. And the big concerts drive hotel occupancy, which helps them pay off the debt. The weekend of Beyonce concerts they had down for 85 million in hotel revenue. I don't know if that how real that number is, but that is according to the park district that they said one weekend of Beyonce was 85 million in hotel revenue.
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Co-Host
And that's very similar to a Bears game weekend. Right?
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Dan Bernstein
Geez. I mean that's. If you start actually expanding that and they improve the sound system and they make that a better concert venue. Oh, there's so much that could be done. You could do a hockey rink in the winter. You could do all Kinds of things.
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Co-Host
What is the concert experience? Have you been to a concert at Soldier Field as is?
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Dan Bernstein
Have I been to a concert at Soldier Field as is? No, I have not. My kids. I know Jason has. Zoe's been to a ton, and Beth has been to a ton. I think Zoe's seen Taylor Swift there every time and. Or multiple times. And he was at one of the festivals. I know, but. But it has been fine for Taylor Swift. But if it could be better for these giant shows and you can. You could actually make it not working around football and make it more where anything else has to work around a concert venue. You could. You could improve all of it. I find the people who built the Salt Shed and Thalia hall and did the sound in all these places, and then you're.
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Co-Host
You're.
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Dan Bernstein
You're talking then.
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Co-Host
Yeah, that was the thing that struck me the most significantly with that story was the fact that the Bears account for less than 20%.
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Dan Bernstein
It's amazing.
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Co-Host
I thought it was higher than that. I didn't realize it was. I mean, that is a significant number, but not as significant as I would think that an NFL team would be.
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Dan Bernstein
I was a little surprised. And again, some of these numbers you're not always certain of because of who's trying to pump things up for their presentations. But it was absolutely amazing to me. The Bears are. They're almost. I don't want to call them an albatross, but they're a hindrance. They're a hindrance because they pretty much give the place away.
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Co-Host
Yeah. And, Dan, if. Then if you can couple these two stories here and someone who had some real foresight in charge, you could use this as an advantage in your conversations with state legislators to get something done in Arlington Heights. How the move out of Soldier Field not only benefits the Bears, but it benefits you, the city as well. Like, this is something that you.
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Dan Bernstein
That.
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Co-Host
That's an angle that should have been worked from the start.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, if you understand too, that. And then I will say, though, that that's the thing about going to Hammond. There's no hotels there. If you. When you build in Arlington Heights, a lot of people are going to stay at o', Hare, which is obviously still Cook County. And, and the. The airport itself is Chicago. But the area around there, Rosemont, is gonna probably see most of the hotel revenue for big events out there. But if it's in Hammond, that's. That's all in the city.
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Co-Host
That's all in the city.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. Everybody's staying at hotels there except for
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Co-Host
the Players that move because they build houses there.
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Dan Bernstein
Right? Because. Well, honey, I'm sorry, we, we have to now move to Indiana. Although I did see too, one of the hilarious things is somebody said that, that Hammond is a 25 minute drive. I'm like, come on, come on. Like maybe as the crow flies or at 4 in the morning.
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Co-Host
Right? It's not 25 minutes.
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Dan Bernstein
Come on.
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Co-Host
Yeah, honey, we're, we're leaving. We're leaving Lake Forest. We're heading to Hammond.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's, let's, let's just, let's factor in some of that stuff. Either way, it is there. There's plenty going on. Do really look at this. This PowerPoint presentation that has this or this deck, as they say. That has been the. Embedded in the story that is at Fox 32. The parachuts and Fox 32 did a really good job. And thanks for them for having me on last week too. That was a nice opportunity to go in and talk about things and wear my little 312 sports thing here because these are really cool. We're gonna make more of these. We're working on that. By the way, questions about working on stuff. Working on a lot of stuff. Yes. So we're hoping to have that all available for you because I know a lot of people have been asking and I know people ask me too, about, are you really serious about Russ Armstrong and windows? Are they really that good? And is Russ really into curling? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm. This is all the realness. When Russ comes to your house to measure your windows, if you so much as even start to mention curling, if you have curlers in your hair, Russ will start talking curling with you because that's his thing. Like this has been, he's. This has been the best time of year for him.
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Co-Host
So is it true or false? He has a massive semi that. The Chicago windows guy semi. And inside the semi, the, the truck at the trailer itself is a curling. Is a curling lane.
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Dan Bernstein
Is that. Oh, I would. No, that's in the plans. I can neither confirm nor deny that he does travel with the ability to immediately have a curling throwdown with anyone who may challenge him.
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Co-Host
Double curling game.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Yeah, he does just like. All right, you think you can take me? Let's go right now. And then he throws open the back of the truck. It's like Spy Hunter, dude.
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Co-Host
We watched, we watched USA and Switzerland women's curling and I watched it for, I don't know, 45 minutes an hour.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Co-Host
No. No idea what's happening. And I don't know why I kept watching because the whole time I'm like, why? I don't understand why. Why are they stopping that thing there? Why go further into this? Like, get points.
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Dan Bernstein
Do they know what they're doing?
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Co-Host
Leave alone.
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Dan Bernstein
I know they're, they're okay.
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Co-Host
It's like, all right, so you get points by going in the circles. Stop throwing it outside the goddamn circles. You get, you leave it outside the circle. Then they knock yours out right away.
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Dan Bernstein
Called the house.
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Co-Host
You've got to go second. You can't go first. You go screwed.
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Dan Bernstein
Speaking as someone who has been curling,
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Co-Host
I know you're a curling expert now.
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Dan Bernstein
You know I'm an expert.
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Co-Host
I got that angle on it. And that would be curling and window expert.
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Dan Bernstein
Now you're talking about the house and, and the middle. The, the, the bullseye. That's the button.
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Co-Host
Yeah, the. Oh, it's the, the kept calling it the butt.
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Dan Bernstein
The butt. Yeah, it's the button.
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Co-Host
I kept saying get in the butt. Get it in the butt.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, well, you say that all the time. Anyway, so that was just we always walking around saying that Russ Armstrong is the owner of Chicago window Guys. That, that is absolutely true.
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Co-Host
Apologize, Russ.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I don't apologize for anything. His, his windows are the best. And the process is great because it's Russ and his people are the people that you deal with. He doesn't use any third party labor. Subcontracted people like, who's this? Who's that? Who's this? Who's this? You know, you're dealing with Chicago window Guys. And he's going to come out and he's going to tell you about all the different windows and he's going to explain why all these deals that you hear of elsewhere, our gimmicks will buy one, get one free. If you act now, it's two for one. Whatever. He's going to match any price. But don't fall for the gimmicks. They have the best product, best price. 847-302-9171 and go to ChicagoNowBeyond.com and don't take my word for it. Look up all the five star reviews that he's gotten. And it's why I've recommended Russ to my neighbors, to friends, to coworkers, and everybody has loved the process and the product. So call him. He's waiting for your call right now. He's probably out driving the mobile curling rink around 847-302-9171. And check out those five star reviews at ChicagoNowGuys.com. It is time for a 312 Sports Olympic update. And here is Matabaticola.
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Co-Host
And it's our final Olympic update. I'll say that too. Yeah, I know it's kind of sad, but not. All right, let's start with the other sports. We'll leave hockey for last. Men's half pipe, Alex Ferreira. He won a gold medal. I don't know if you saw that. Women's 1500 meter speed skate. Corinne Stoddard won the bronze for the usa, so congratulations to her. Women's two person bobsled. They have a two man bobsled. But I said two person bobsled. Kelly Armbruster Humphreys and Jasmine Jones, they took the bronze home for usa. That wasn't the model bob, that was the two person bobsled. Women's curling, usa. They did lose to Canada in the bronze game. So they were competing with Switzerland for the gold medal game. Lost that and then lost to Canada in the bronze game. So sorry. But you know, hey, you got me in for, I don't know, 90 minutes or so the other night. It was. It was something. That's what I'll say about it. It was something. The. The Switzerland team, a lot of yelling, sounded very angry. Very, very angry.
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Dan Bernstein
With what language were they yelling? Because there, I believe Switzerland has several official languages.
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Co-Host
So what are their official languages? Because that sounded like German to me. But anything loud and like angry sounding, I just automatically assume it's German.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Switzerland has four official national languages. German, French, Italian and Romansh.
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Co-Host
Okay, so they weren't yelling in French and they weren't yelling in Italian. I know that.
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Dan Bernstein
So maybe it's very likely German.
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Co-Host
German is very angry and very loud.
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Dan Bernstein
62% of Switzerland speaks German.
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Co-Host
Okay, so that's what it was. So when I was making those jokes, I was being accurate when without even knowing it. Mixed aerials team freestyle skiing. Have you.
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Dan Bernstein
Did you see this?
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Co-Host
Any of this? Let me say it again. Mixed aerials, team freestyle skiing. No, I didn't see it either. I'm assuming you're going down a ramp on skis and you jump and twist and turn and try not to kill yourself. Okay, well, anyway, whatever it was. In the mixed aerials, team freestyle skiing, USA won the gold. Dan. Yes, yes, I know you were looking for that one. Kayla Coon, Connor Curran and Christopher Lillis. They took home the gold for USA in mixed aerials team freestyle skiing. Have you heard of this one? Women's mass start, 16 laps, speed skate.
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Dan Bernstein
No.
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Co-Host
Either have I. But Whoever it was and whatever it is, Mia Manganiello, she won the bronze for USA.
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Dan Bernstein
Cool.
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Co-Host
In the women's mass start, 16 laps,
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Dan Bernstein
speed skateboard start, 16 11. Sweet skate. All right. It's like a horse race.
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Co-Host
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Probably on ice, though.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it'd be bad. A horse on ice. Bad. Well, it's worth trying, but my guess is bad.
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Co-Host
Yeah, they can do the buggies. I'd like to see that on ice.
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Dan Bernstein
Ice horse. Ice horse. Yes. I like it. You put spikes on the. On the horseshoes.
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Progressive Insurance Announcer
Yes.
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Co-Host
Yeah, absolutely. And then they get a big zamboni that comes by and cleans it up after every race. That'd be fun.
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Dan Bernstein
Driven by a horse.
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Co-Host
There you go, Larry. Horse. All right. Men's hockey, of course, USA wins the gold medal, first time since 1980 in overtime, 2 to 1 over Canada. So in the.
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Dan Bernstein
The.
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Co-Host
The semifinal game, you have Quinn Hughes wins in overtime. Jack Hughes, after getting his teeth knocked out, he wins in overtime for the USA. They beat Canada 2 to 1, Finland 6 to 1 over Slovakia for the bronze game. But, of course, was it. John Cooper is the head coach for Canada. Said we need to evaluate this three on three overtime thing. That's not real hockey.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, why not try winning at it?
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Co-Host
Well, then he said, though, we're not making that as an excuse. It's just. It's not real hockey. We should get rid of the three on three. Even though they won, I think a quarterfinal game in overtime on three on three. But anyway, really exciting match. I know that you weren't thrilled about it, but we were actually delayed. So Hank had a basketball game yesterday, and we were. We were about 10 minutes late to warm ups because we, as a family were watching the hockey game. We were excited about it.
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Dan Bernstein
It was cool.
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Co-Host
I was fun.
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Dan Bernstein
I kind of forgot. And then I slept in and I. And I got up, and then I forgot why I was up, and I went back to sleep, and then I got up just in time for overtime. So it worked out.
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Co-Host
Oh, so you worked. It worked out perfect. Yeah, I'll admit, too. I forgot it was on. And then Jackson came downstairs. I was in the kitchen doing some stuff, and Jackie immediately goes to the tv, which is not normal.
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Dan Bernstein
So.
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Co-Host
What are you doing, buddy? He's, like, dead. USA Hockey's on. I was like, oh, shit. I forgot just like you did. But I didn't go back to sleep. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
To watch it.
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Co-Host
Yeah, we turned the game on. It was actually the start of the second. Second period, so it was perfect timing. And the first period seemed pretty competitive, but USA had no right being in this game. In the second and third period, they were lucky to be a 11 tie going in overtime because Canada thoroughly dominated the second and third period.
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Dan Bernstein
One stick save that Hellebuck made was unbelievable. Taves was just ridiculous.
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Co-Host
Yeah, it was great. But congrats to the USA men and women. They take home the gold over Canada. The final medal count, Dan. Norway ran away with this one early. They finished with 41 medals. USA finished second with 33, but did have 12 gold medals, which is the. The most ever for a Winter Olympics for USA. Italy finished third. So this really worked out well for me. My three favorite countries, Norway, United States and Italy. Germany with 26, Japan with 24. That rounds out your top five. And that wraps up the Olympic updates for us.
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Dan Bernstein
This has been the final 312 sports 2026 Winter Olympic update.
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Co-Host
It's a good song though, isn't it? Like that feels like Olympicy, doesn't it?
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Dan Bernstein
I like it. Yeah. Was that in our library?
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Co-Host
It was, yes. Thanks to Kaz for providing that to me. Yeah, I play around in that thing a lot.
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Dan Bernstein
I know.
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Co-Host
Different music themes.
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Dan Bernstein
I know you do. Related to the Olympics. I've been. I've come to a decision, and this is a major policy announcement.
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Co-Host
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
That I've been thinking about.
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Co-Host
This is for you.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. This is a personal policy, and maybe this constitutes a change, but I've decided something.
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Co-Host
You're going to start wearing pants outside.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, hell no. Come on. The hell you say.
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Co-Host
Sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
Look, we're not. We're. We're not. We're not animals here. We're not crazy. We're going to. We're going to keep doing what we. What we do in that regard. Come on. After watching all the Olympic television and NBC had in general, did a wonderful job, and I know ratings are way up, and I think NBC did a fine job presenting the product in a way that gave you plenty of context. It wasn't overly cloying. Mike Tirico is always perfect. And I thought his little final speech after the hockey was probably on the. On the cheesy side, but it was well done. And the fact that he could do that just off the top of his head without scripting it is just shows that he's. He's very, very skilled. And we're lucky to have somebody with his. His ability to. To contextualize and compartmentalize all these things, and then immediately you turn on your TV and he's the most knowledgeable NFL play By play guy out there during the commercials. We were counting. And you have been doing this, too. We did it in the super bowl. And you did the Iraq poing count. Now, if you're just joining us here on Dan Bernstein Unfiltered run 312 sports, maybe you're not aware of the concept of Iraq poing, and we've talked about it a lot since we've started here. It comes from years ago, the Geico commercial, where the Geico caveman had to identify Washington Pro bowl linebacker Brian Oracpo in the ad in the locker room by saying, your Pro bowl linebacker Brian Oracpo. And the thought at the time. And I've always sort of cleaved this belief. If you have to go out of your way to use commercial time in an expository fashion to actually identify your celebrity endorser or your celebrity presence, it's probably not money well spent, right?
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Co-Host
You're wasting money.
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Dan Bernstein
Now, I am coming off that policy, and here's what I realized. It's one.
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Co-Host
Say this was a major change. Dude, you just. You just said, hey, I got a little thing, Apollo. And this is. This is significant. To not run this by me first.
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Dan Bernstein
I. I wanted to spring it on you because I wanted to get your actual reaction.
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Co-Host
Okay, well, my first one is.
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Dan Bernstein
Hold on, I'm not done yet. Let me just. Let me just explain. And this is. This is from a place of honesty, because it's from a place of consistency and honesty. I was starting to feel like a hypocrite about my policy.
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Co-Host
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
There's one particular commercial that did it for me or did it to me. Do you know which one I'm talking about?
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Co-Host
I don't. So just tell me, because I'm just boiling anger.
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Dan Bernstein
I know you are. I had a feeling that this could create internal conflict.
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Co-Host
I mean, this is our thing.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it doesn't. It's still our thing. However, that Pokemon commercial where it's Lady Gaga, but you're not sure it's Lady Gaga because she has long, straight black hair like that looks like Lady Gaga. Is that Lady Gaga? And then it's Trevor Noah and it. I have no idea who anyone is in that commercial. I am ne. So I've been banned in my house from saying, who is that? Who is. Who's that? Who's that? I need Iraqpo ing now. I don't. I don't need it for Doug Flutie and Frank Thomas. Like, there's some people where. Where you're Doug Flut and you're Frank Thomas. Like, I don't need it for that. But do you know the people in that Pokemon ad?
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Co-Host
I'm looking at it right now.
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Dan Bernstein
Do you know who Jisoo is?
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Co-Host
Who?
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Dan Bernstein
Jisoo from Blackpink.
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Co-Host
Do you know that's a, that's a K pop band? I know, I know the name Blackpink, but I would have never. Like she could walk in my basement right now. I wouldn't know who she is.
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Dan Bernstein
Of course. Exactly.
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Co-Host
There she is. Well, your K pop star, Jisoo.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly. I need her to be a rack pod. I didn't know, you know, F1 driver Charles Leclerc, the actor. Mitrai Ramakrishnan, Lamina Yamal. Like, that is a massive super bowl commercial there. And I don't know who anybody is. So I can't be the guy who's like, well, yeah, look at her. You keep saying all these names because people don't know who anybody is. And yet I need it. So I, I have to be honest about not knowing who a lot of these celebrity endorsers are.
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Co-Host
But did I miss this commercial? This was on during the Super Bowl.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, you missed it. Cause you probably didn't know who anybody was either. Every commercial I'm like, should I know who that person is? Maybe it's another one of these grizzled people starring in whatever the next Taylor Sheridan rural shoot em up show is. And like, oh, here's, you know, whatever this next one is. And what's this? It's land guy and west man or whatever it might be. And there's all this dust in the air and then they're on the hills and riding horses and. Oh, he's the star of that. I have no idea.
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Co-Host
All right, so very easily. It's Lady Gaga and Trevor Noah.
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Dan Bernstein
I wasn't sure it was Lady Gaga.
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Co-Host
Yeah, no, you can I. Right away.
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Dan Bernstein
Trevor Noah was the only one I was 100% on, so I'm 100% on those two.
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Co-Host
The rest, if they're celebrities, I have no idea who they are.
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Dan Bernstein
Exactly.
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Co-Host
It's a commercial for Pokemon.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-Host
Like to do what? Like to collect cards. Is there a Pokemon movie? What is, what's the point of this? Oh, Jisoo. Oh, yeah. So they do name them.
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Dan Bernstein
At the end they say these were the. And I don't know which is which.
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Co-Host
What's your favorite?
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, yeah, they're talking about their favorite Pokemon.
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Co-Host
Yeah. All right.
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Dan Bernstein
Character.
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Co-Host
Wait, are you. Are you. So is this official? Are you asking for my opinion? Where, where are we at here on this?
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Dan Bernstein
You Know, I, I'm just saying that I, I'm going to lay it out there. I can't decry a rack poeing if I'm the same guy looking at my TV asking my wife who is that? Should I know who that is? Who's that person? Do we know that person?
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Co-Host
That's the question. Dan, as a 56 year old man right now Lady Gaga has been in our culture and our mainstream and movies and things so for you to identify her. Fine. Trevor Noah. Yes. Is this commercial for you, Dan? Is it for me?
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Dan Bernstein
It doesn't matter. Maybe it would be if, if the Iraq poing tells me who they are.
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Co-Host
How interested are you in Pokemon?
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Dan Bernstein
I'm not right.
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Co-Host
This commercial is not for you. I'm ending this personal policy before it begins. A rat pulling is still strong and alive and necessary and we're going to destroy any product, any company that uses it in their commercials.
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Dan Bernstein
It's everyone now.
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Co-Host
You're taking one commercial and three people you didn't recognize and seeing everyone now because it happens.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I will. Okay, I'm going to start writing down commercials where it's somebody who I'm supposed to know who they are and I'm not told who they are. So I need to balance.
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Co-Host
I'm just, I'm a little bothered still that you just, you sprung this on me in the middle of the show without bringing it up in our pre show meetings that we have.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, let me say this. Oh, I know hours of pre show meetings I miss.
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Co-Host
Bring this up to me.
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Dan Bernstein
I missed the second meeting. I know because, but, but we usually have what, seven pre shows.
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Co-Host
Seven pre show meetings.
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Dan Bernstein
I know, I know I missed number the second meeting today but I'll get better at that. That's my bad. I need to dedicate myself more to our pre show meetings. But this, I'm holding open my stance on this because I can't be the same person that says don't identify celebrity, don't take time out of your commercial to identify the celebrities and be the same guy where I turn around from doing the dishes and go who the hell is that? Because if properly iraqpo'd I wouldn't have to ask that question.
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Co-Host
Well, let me ask you this. So let's go back to the beginning. Geico Iraqpo is Brian Arakpo.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-Host
If they hadn't Iraqpo'd Brian Arakbo, would you have known that was Brian Arakbo?
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Dan Bernstein
He's in his uniform. Yes. Yes. Was he?
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Co-Host
I thought he wasn't in his uniform.
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Dan Bernstein
Pretty sure. He's like, I think that one.
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Co-Host
I.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I think I would have gotten that one.
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Co-Host
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I. But maybe not.
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Co-Host
How about we. Now. Now I'm. Now I need time to think about it because I thought about this during meetings three through seven, but now.
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Dan Bernstein
No, you were. You were presenting in most of those meetings.
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Co-Host
No, but I can think and present at the same time.
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Dan Bernstein
I know. Especially because we use. We use very strict parliamentary procedure and we're always having emotions. But I'm. No, you got it. You have to. I like them. They make me feel important and pretty. So we're sticking with the long.
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Co-Host
I think we should lose the wigs and wear pants, but it's your call.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I. We're sticking with wigs. No pants. Occasionally, socks on hands, underwear on head. Come on.
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Co-Host
My last night.
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Dan Bernstein
I was gonna say don't. You know, Honey rules already.
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Co-Host
How are you, babe?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Vote for a little cloture. Hey, you think?
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Co-Host
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
So that's.
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Co-Host
All right. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
We're going to.
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Co-Host
We're going to. We're going to table this for now.
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Dan Bernstein
Fine.
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Co-Host
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Co-Host
I didn't expect this.
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't either. But I. It's something that I realized I had to be honest, and I.
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Co-Host
Major news.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know who Black, but Blackpink's black.
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Co-Host
But what did you say?
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Dan Bernstein
Jisoo. Jisoo of Blackpink.
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Co-Host
So Blackpink is a K pop band, which I'm. I know because I see the name on my wife's screen on her in her car. She listens the. The. The serious channel. Hits. I think it's hits one. And I've seen Blackpink. I've seen that artist come up, had no idea who they were, and learned that they're a K pop band. Okay, so Jisoo is a artist from K pop. Blackpink.
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Dan Bernstein
I know that now.
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Co-Host
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
All right. Or maybe there's like a. The equivalent of a captioning just for celebrities.
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Co-Host
Oh, so like what the Golden Globe did by, like, putting an icon over someone in their seat while those two people were talking. Annoyingly. Maybe just in the commercial, they could just put like a little name badge on screen.
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Dan Bernstein
That's fine. Just something that pops up. Or you can set an alternate channel to tell you who. Every celebrity endorses a QR code under
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Co-Host
the person that you can use your phone to say, find out who they are. Because even just the name, like, if it just said Jisoo, right, you wouldn't
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Progressive Insurance Announcer
know who that is.
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Dan Bernstein
That's true. It'd Pop up to the Wikipedia page or something.
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Co-Host
You need a QR code and Jisoo. Oh, then as you're reading through it, then you go back and look at the TV and now they're three commercials ahead. Because you were reading.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. And I forgot what they were selling me. Right.
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Co-Host
You didn't know because they weren't selling you anything. They were asking you who's your favorite Pokemon.
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Dan Bernstein
But that's selling me something. Right? What's selling? One of the Pokemon things.
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Co-Host
So are they gonna. Is that. So did that make you want to go out and buy a pack of Pokemon cards?
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Dan Bernstein
No.
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Co-Host
So it's a bad commercial.
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Dan Bernstein
Maybe it was just an ineffective commercial for me because had I known that
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Co-Host
was just meant for you, maybe.
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Dan Bernstein
Or maybe had I known that was Jisoo. Oh, Jisoo of blackpink. I better go out and get Pokemon cards now. But I didn't know.
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Co-Host
Well, now you know. So maybe when you see that commercial again, you'll have a different feeling and you want to run out to Target and buy some Pokemon cards.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, we'll have. You're right. Table this and we'll have to gather more items.
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Co-Host
Walmart or where can we and can't shop? Yeah, I don't. Which one do we go to? Can we go to Target or we, we don't go to Target because we like diverse things.
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Dan Bernstein
We don't go to Target. So we go to.
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Co-Host
We don't go to Walmart. No, because.
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Dan Bernstein
Why not? We're not supposed to go there.
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Co-Host
I thought Walmart supports orange. Is that. You're wrong about that.
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't. I think Walmart's still okay in that regard. Right. They sometimes have fishing gear too. So if I, if I have to go to Walmart, I always swing through to see if they have 4 inch Senkos in a color.
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Co-Host
I like going to go to Venture and get stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
Z Y O Z. Yep.
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Co-Host
Or service merchandise.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, is that service merchandise was the one where you had to like pull a ticket and, and you couldn't like, take something off the shelves?
- [46:53]
Co-Host
Yes. You weren't allowed to touch things.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that screwed me up. I, I, that made me uncomfortable and I think I just didn't understand it and I left.
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Co-Host
Is Radio Shack still open?
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Dan Bernstein
No, no.
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Co-Host
You know, it would be a good sponsor for that.
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Dan Bernstein
Shaq.
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Co-Host
Yes. You wouldn't have to identify him either.
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Dan Bernstein
Meanwhile, did you eat?
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Co-Host
Are you NBA hall of Famer Shaquille o' Neal here at Radio Shack?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes, I am. Did you see what happened when Charles Barkley accidentally Called the Knicks the Dicks. You didn't see it over the weekend.
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Co-Host
Oh, it's so good.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, my God.
- [47:28]
Co-Host
So the New York Dicks. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
I said, well, I'm gonna tell you what the Dicks have to do. And. And he. And he's.
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Co-Host
Is it Bill Clinton?
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Dan Bernstein
He starts going through it and he said it and everybody knew he said it. And so Ernie just keeps going. Both Kenny and Shaq lose it completely, of course, and Charles is still going. So the two of them cannot put it back together. See if you can find it.
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Co-Host
I'll find it.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. All right. It's funny. One other quick note here.
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Co-Host
All right, we're going to table that for now.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Table that. That debate. The Cubs have signed Michael Conforto. Correct. Okay. He's bad, you know.
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Co-Host
Well, he's coming off his worst, I think, big league season.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, by a mile. Yeah, by a mile. He was. He was. Oh, he was so bad last year. He was. He was 1.3 war the year before. He was worth 8/10 of a win in 2023. He was good for three years. He was good between 2017 and 2019. His age, 24, 25 and 26 seasons. And after that he's been. He was a long time ago, he was meh. And now he's bad. So it gives you a little bit of. And maybe if used as just a bench player, platoon player, if he's sort of replacing the, you know, red beard, and that's your new version of that, and you have somebody who can. Because if. If Moises Ballesteros can't play outfield, which I don't think he can, you're going to need another outfielder, especially with this Matt Shaw experiment.
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Co-Host
He can't, by the way. So he's a dh.
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Dan Bernstein
Moises.
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Co-Host
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Co-Host
So I think. I think they're required now to sign a bad, older veteran dodger every year.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, well, if you have to do that now, there's nothing wrong with trying to take somebody who the best team in baseball doesn't have room for. It's not really that bad an idea.
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Co-Host
Right.
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Dan Bernstein
For somebody at the end of your bench. But I don't know, you're hoping to get a dead cat bounce out of that guy's career. I will say his expected numbers have outpaced his actuals and that can be a pretty decent sign as far as expected weighted on base because that tells you how the ball is leaving his bat and he might be hitting it as some bad luck or some well positioned defenses. And you Got to kind of figure that out. But the only thing that gives me a little bit of hope was two years ago and his expected weighted on base was 3:53. If he could do that again, he'd
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Co-Host
be worth in a very, very part time role. Sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. Yeah.
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Co-Host
I watched inning and a half on Friday of spring baseball and that's, that's all I even consumed over the whole weekend. So.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, what I spent most of my weekend watching was Bulls basketball. There was. I watched probably six hours of Bulls basketball. Maybe I'm the only person in Chicago to do it. There's a lot going on with the Bulls right now. A lot. And obviously it's going to be a big episode of Organizations win championships this week. But let me just touch on a couple things. First of all, this is a great time to listen to what is being said on these broadcasts because they're in the middle of a nine game losing streak and because the tank is on right now. Adam Amin, Stacy King, Casey Johnson, particularly the actual game broadcast with Mark Brady producing that it is can't miss stuff for opinion and information. The, the truth that has been coming out as they've been discussing things, Adam and Stacey, this essentially in a large part it's been, it's been a talk show about the state of the Bulls. Saturday night Adam laid it down. He was, he was spitting some truths. And what is also interesting to me has been really getting a sense of Stacy King's basketball sensibilities and his scouting eye. Now I will disagree about a lot of things with Stacy King. We, we have some different basketball opinions about the modern game, about where it's going, about what, what is worth fighting for in, in preserving some older aspects of the game. But I will say this, regardless of any disagreements, I have immense respect for Stacy's personal basketball sensibilities that whatever they may be. Whether or not I agree with all of them or not isn't the point. The point is I respect what he thinks is important to a winning basketball team in the NBA. And there's a lot of points that he's had to make recently about practicing and what that means and about toughness in the NBA, about what that means about availability in the NBA. And I'm here for a lot of that. And he's woven in a lot of that commentary. A lot of good X and O stuff. Sometimes I think Stacy does his best work when the Bulls are losing some his best work when the Bulls are bad because he really can break it down when he wants to. And the last Couple games have been outstanding in that regard as they're really looking at all these new players and how they fit who's playing and why, who's not playing and why. So. And a lot of this credit goes to the production and direction side, what's going on in that truck with. With Mark Brady and. And understanding that they've got a lot of capital built up to have this kind of latitude to tell the truth that they do. But if you're a Bulls fan, I know your. Your instinct is to say, oh, I gotta watch a lot of meds. You can learn a lot. Casey Johnson, too, is doing a really good job. And you can tell from some of his reporting, you know, he's. You. You don't need to. He doesn't have to name names to know where some of these opinions are coming from and why Billy Donovan is making some of the decisions that he's making. It's just a really good time to learn a lot about the Bulls because they're doing really good work. When we did not get a chance to discuss the Jaden Ivy catastrophe and it is that. So they should be on the phone right now with Detroit. What did they know what was disclosed. And the Bulls need to talk to their own doctors about how they allowed this trade to go through. For a guy who isn't ready to
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Co-Host
play, that's more important to me is that. That conversation.
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Dan Bernstein
He can't play.
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Co-Host
More so than going back to the.
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Dan Bernstein
To Detroit. Well, I. I knew it when I saw and I told you that.
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Co-Host
That.
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Dan Bernstein
That people in Detroit were saying that this guy is not what he was. He doesn't have the same quickness. And you. You noticed that in the very first game. And I. And I told you that and I said it right here in this space and we talked at length about it on owc. So if you are listening to that, we said that something's wrong with Jaden Ivy. I don't know what it is, but they may have traded for a player who's done.
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Co-Host
Dude, it's not even quickness. It's just movement.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. I can't. He can't move right and he can't get around a center. And this guy was lightning fast. And he just isn't anymore. He worked. He looks worse than Alonzo. And I don't know how they ended up trading for this guy. I don't know what they've been reassured by their doctors or others doctors. The doctors of other. Whether it's Ivy's own or the Pistons. But this is bad. And the other thing that's bad too is Zach Collins finally decided he's going to have season ending surgery on the toe injury after he came back from the wrist injury. Why now you're screwing over this guy's free agency after all this? It would have been so much better for him to realize, hey, you have surgery right now and then you'll be, you'll be able to show teams sooner that you're worth a big contract. This does, this is not. Neither of these current issues are helping the Bulls reputation around the league as being untrustworthy regarding medical issues. And that has dogged them for years. It has hurt them in free agency. It's hurt them as in, in the, in players discussions. But if there are more nebulous medical decisions here, it is not helping the way the league and players in the league view the Bulls. They must figure that out because this they, they can't sustain. More questions about this, about when, when agents are talking to other teams, when players are talking to each other about saying, well, why, why did this guy have surgery here? Why did this guy not come back? Why did. Some people will go to another team and say, well, they figured it out. And I don't, I don't know exactly why it continues to happen, but something again seems to be not quite right here when it comes to the Bulls and figuring out injuries.
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Co-Host
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
And that's not a way to live in the NBA. It really isn't. Now, if you have not gotten your account squared away yet with my bookie, you need to do that because you know what's coming up in a week? March. Not even a week. There's aren't that many days in February. March is coming. College basketball is heating up. Make sure you are all set with my bookie. You've got the conference races tightening up. You've got some really good conference basketball being played. You've got bubble teams fighting for their lives. Everybody's jockeying for position on the various seed lines right now. That's why every possession starting to feel bigger, things are starting to get fun. So whether it's picking winners, whether it's the prop board player points, team totals, futures tournament odds, there's value right now. Before a lot of people start converging on all these spaces, this is when you can find some value in these markets. So go to MyBookie AG armed with the code DBU and then your first bet is covered up to 500 bucks. If it doesn't hit you then have a bet back bonus token and you can Run it back so you're not just watching the madness build. You can make it pay. MyBookie AG. One account, one wallet. Bet the spread, live, bet the second half. There's a casino you can hit between games. Everything is right there. The code is dbu. So don't just watch all this madness build. Make it pay with my bookie. Which leads us to our DBU picks presented by my bookie. Mine's very simple. Tonight we have the tanking Jazz against the playoff bound Houston Rockets. And I was going to take Amen Thompson at two plus steals, but I'm feeling frisky, damn it. And I'm going to improve my odds and I'm going to take that plus 300. And I'm going to say that Mr. Thompson, member of the Thompson Twins. Not those Thompson Twins. He. I'm in Thompson. Three or more steals against the Jazz tonight, I'm going to take that because I like the odds a little bit better. And I think that the Jazz want to lose. All right.
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Co-Host
In my basketball picks, Dan, NBA and NCAA. I'm 13 and three in my last 16 games against the spread. 13 and three. So tonight, yeah, I know, it's been great.
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Dan Bernstein
That's. That's crazy good.
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Co-Host
Yes, it's been really good. So I have a small play tonight because I didn't feel a whole lot. But I'm staying in college today and there's two games I'm going to look at. UNC is hosting Louisville. UNC is giving two and a half. So we're going to. Or no, taking two and a half.
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Dan Bernstein
Sorry.
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Co-Host
So we're going to take UNC plus two and a half hosting the Cardinals. And then Houston is in Kansas. So Houston at Kansas and Houston laying two and a half. So we're going to. We're going to do that on the road in a tough environment. Houston minus two and a half. UNC plus two and a half.
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Dan Bernstein
Those two picks. I watched a little bit of that Kansas Cincinnati game. Yeah, they got it taken to a man in their place.
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Co-Host
Yep. Yeah. So that's why I like Houston right now laying two and a half at Kansas. UNC getting two and a half. Hosting the Louisville Cardinals.
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Dan Bernstein
And those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. Quick reminder. The combine is starting in Indianapolis for the Bears and the NFL. And we're going to be covering that and the important aspects of what this week is going to bring there on forward progress today and throughout the week. But that is going to do it for Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. Brought to you by our friends The Chicago Window Guys, 847-302-9171 and chicagowindowguys.com and in partnership with my bookie, Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered. Unfiltered on 312 Sports.
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