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Dan Bernstein unfiltered unfiltered on 3, 1, 2.
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Sports DBU on 3, 1, 2. It's been a week, hasn't it? We have been very, very busy. It's been really intense with all that's been going on right out of the gate this week, trying to cover all that was happening with the Bears and Springfield and everything else. And I just want to tell you there's because of the outpouring for Friday Feedback Friday today, like, I've never seen a trove of, of emails like this. That has been like, every time I pick up my phone and I look at it, there's, there's 15 new ones and two hours late, two hours later, 22 new ones. And I'm going through all of this. If, if your email didn't make the cut to be presented on Friday Feedback Friday, it's no shame because this, this was a week of a lot of input and I've got to go through to prioritize all that and then sort of see which were my on background sources sending me things that I'm not going to read to anybody, like, okay, no, this, this goes here and this goes here. But it's going to be great. And I, I'm looking forward to it. There's not going to be a top 10 list just because of all of the, because there's other stuff to talk about today, namely when we, when Maddie and I on forward progress yesterday, we're talking about these quotes from Roma Dunn. I think the initial reaction certainly that I had was, wow, you often don't hear a player offer up the truth of sports like that, that starkly and that honestly, that I'll never be the same again. I had this pretty severe stress fracture in my foot. There were multiple foot injuries. The tissues in there and the structure of the foot is remodeled. And I'm going to have to learn how to play my game with a remodeled foot at age, what is he, 23? And I thought, wow, okay, that's, that's an admission that is something that usually NFL players or players in other sports don't admit until later in their careers or the ends of their careers. And we never want to fault somebody for being honest. But I also thought that there might be a response from the Bears. So here's where I am now. And having talked to some people, having gotten a lot of response to that and the reason I think it merits further discussion, he's worth less today. He's simply worthless. I'm not saying worthless. I'm saying he Is worth less. Like my guy, homeless who had his sign. He's not homeless. He was homeless. He's just not home as often. Please give.
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Rome is 24, by the way.
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24. You don't do that. And if I were the Bears, I would think very seriously today, and not like late in the afternoon, I would think very seriously today about cleaning this up. It's going to be awkward. It's, it's. There's no good way to do it. But if I were Bears football comms, I'd be meeting today and saying, hey, here's the quote. How do we walk this back? I'd have Rome in there talking about it. And the quote is this. This is my new normal. And it's not from a standpoint like that. I'm always in pain, but the way my foot broke, there's calluses in there that create a different type of foot structure with those bones. Different types of things that shift things around. My new normal is kind of what I'm going into. My guess is this was explained to him by the doctors. And nobody's lying. I don't think anybody's lying. A lot of things are true in this situation, as they are in most. Everything's usually more nuanced than the way certainly sports talk tends to. Tends to structure them. I do think he has to understand what his new normal is. It is possible that Roma Dunes A is going to figure it out with a, you know, he maybe takes two practices at full speed in pads now that he's gotten started and healed and all these like, oh, oh, okay. So it feels like this instead of this, oh, okay, I got it. That's possible. And that his. If he ran the three cone drill just like the combine, that those numbers be identical. And he's going to also, you know, make up for any of that with a better understanding of his routes and leverages and coverages and all that. That's possible. It's also possible he's slower now. What happens is, now that he said this, the focus on everything we see from him is going to intensify. Not just the numbers. I'm not talking about scouting the stat sheet. I'm talking about going to practices, watching the player. And I hate to do this, and I don't do this as to be alarmist, but I remember when Kevin White was drafted, what, fifth overall. And then they lied about, oh, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine, he's fine. He has a broken leg. And then when he Came back. He'll be himself. He'll be himself. He'll be fine. He'll be fine. And he couldn't run. And I'll never forget when we had Matt Miller on and Matt Miller said, kevin White is running like a fullback. He said, this is this. This wide receiver, this blazing, fast wide receiver coming out of college, West Virginia, I believe. And he said he runs like a fullback or a slower tight end. And that is scouting what you see and not just scouting what you hear from coaches and. Or what you see on a stat sheet so that there's all this attention that's going to be paid right there. What I want to know is if he were traded just completely. I'm not saying they were just theoretically, would he pass another team's physical? Now that we know this, would somebody make a deal for him, get him in the building, give him a look and be like Carlos Correa to do a cross sport reference. Remember the blockbuster deal? And they saw something in his ankle, and I don't like the way that bone healed. That's what happened. Carlos Correa, same thing, kind of remodeled foot in there. It never was quite the same. And he was never quite the same as a player as good as he was because of injury. And a team canceled a deal because they saw that and their doctors flagged it and they said, I don't like that. It was talking about Cam Meredith on the Bears with the Bears doctors. Not worth it. I don't like the way that knee is healed. These things happen. It sucks when they do. But now there's all of these open questions. You can't unring the bell, but you might be able to mitigate some of this if they find a way to walk it back. And I don't know how I would do it, but when he says, this is my new normal, I'm not in pain, he might have to say, wow. Everything I said was. Was that people ran with that and took it out of context. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm just. I just wanted to let you in. And maybe I, you know, just didn't explain it well. Maybe things got a little misconstrued in the response, but it's really not that big a deal. I. Everything's okay. I'm in great shape otherwise. I just have. It just. I got to get used to how it feels a little different. But something has to be done, because otherwise he's just not worth as much. All of us, all of a sudden, now the name Roma Dunze that comes up around the league and everybody thinks, oh, but his. His foot's weird, right? Something's going on with his foot. He's not worth as much.
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Yeah. I heard yesterday on Bears Weekly, Jim Miller and Tom Thayer talk about this, and obviously two former players, super bowl champion, and they. They said it seemed pretty normal that football players all the time go through injuries and they come out after the injury, they heal, they get back to the game, and then they have a new normal. They use the same phrase, and they didn't seem to take much consideration of it, thinking it was. That wasn't that big of a deal. Also heard Clay harbor on Yesterday on the score, and he. He talked about it and talked about being in OTAs and seeing Rome that to him, he didn't look the same or as quick coming out of routes and breaks.
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Oh, okay, now, see, that gets scarier.
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Yeah, now. Now he just said he is a bigger guy. So I don't know if he was trying to pull back from it or didn't want to lay into it fully. Oh, well, you know, maybe that's him. Just like, as you mentioned, he needs a couple practices to get a little more comfortable. Maybe that's all it is. But a lot of the comments, too, to our shows, people are just like, all right, well, yeah, he can still be a productive wide receiver. I just don't have the same expectations for him as a top 10 guy. That's the problem, though.
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That's an enormous story.
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Correct.
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If living up to his draft expectation is now off the table. That's what I mean. That's just another way of saying he's worth less.
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Yes.
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As an asset, no matter what your plan is with him. And this comes back to you, scout your players better than other people. Scout your players. And they're not afraid to move guys. They just move DJ Moore because they believe that they had enough people developing, enough people in the pipeline. He's the key. That's the number nine overall pick.
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Right. He was your number one wide receiver.
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That's your.
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That's your five touchdowns in the first
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four games last year. Yes. And now he says he's never going to be the same. He just has to understand this is his new foot. This is his new reality. When you couple that with those. Those actual observations, that's why I brought up what Matt Miller said before. You have to be unflinchingly honest about what you see as a scout, and
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you could certainly have a new normal and he could still be that top 10 wide receiver and Produce that that way, of course. But if he doesn't produce that way because of this new normal, that is an issue.
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But him not being as good is a huge issue.
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Correct.
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So I, he's critical to their hopes. Him,
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I get what you're saying. From a PR standpoint, if they come out and craft something or he walks it back a little bit or tries to dance around, doesn't matter what is said if the production is not there on the football field.
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Correct.
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That's all that matters. That's the reality of the situation.
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I just wonder if they make him a little available and say, hey, hey, by the way, I just, there's something I got to say. About what, where you guys ran with my stuff about the foot. I, you know, I, I like to be honest with you guys and I like to tell you stuff because I, I trust you. I'm not trying to hold anything back from the media. But, but let me be more specific about what's going on with my foot. I'm going to be fine. I'm going to be absolutely fine. It's on me to just get used to how it feels. But I'm just as fast, I'm just as good. Hold me to the same expectations you always would. Because otherwise you've got a devalued asset, a self devalued asset. And you usually don't see professional sports teams make decisions like that.
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Well, not self devalued, but injury devalued and self admitted.
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Right. So I'm saying, but his choice, his, his choice to walk out of a meeting with his doctors and walk out of the field and say, look, here's what happened here. Here's what the MRI looks like. If you look over here, this bone used to be over here and this muscle's gone and they had to take this off of here. And this could have been a list frank break, but it was, you know, they, there's a reason why teams don't share and I love it that they, if they want to, it's absolutely within your rights to do that. And having more information for us is having less. It just adds a lot of pressure. Now you, you're, you put yourself under
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a microscope and I, I just hope that it's a non starter, that it's not, it's, it's not a thing when it comes down to football time.
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Yeah, I, I, I do too. I, absolutely, of course, I hope it's not a thing. But I, I do understand those who looked at this like, whoa, hey, what you, you're what now? Huh? And for those of us who covered the whole David Terrell saga and, and this, you know, first round wide outs and I don't mean to damn him with bad Bears history, but this is, this is. This league is unkind to human bodies. This league is unflinching and unsparing with attrition. And it's just a fact of life in the league. And we have to look at it that way and understand what the possibilities and probabilities are. And I hope the probability is like your guys on. On Bears week. But it's their job to minimize this stuff to remember.
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Yeah, I know.
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Right. They're paid by the team, so it's, they're not just going to say, oh shit, now we're in trouble.
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Yeah. But I also think different injuries in different body parts on different players can mean less. To me, a wide receiver and a foot thing seems more significant.
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That's all right. Just like we were saying with Ozzy Tripillo and the patella tendon tear.
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Correct.
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That the history of big people maintaining their quickness and athleticism and recovery from that is rare. And that's, that's also true. So I, I think we come by any concern and skepticism very honestly and it. With, with 24 hours removed from it. I do think it's a, probably a bigger deal than I treated it yesterday. And I appreciate a lot of the feedback on that particular thing. You know, tonight also too.
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Dan. It might have gotten a little buried underneath the Kyler Gordon stuff too, which was more than hearing that from Ben Johnson. Yeah.
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I think he wanted it to be too. I, I didn't think that they thought that the, that the Roma Dunes stuff would steal headlines. I think their plan was you're laying down the hammer on Kyler Gordon and that's going to be everybody's football lead.
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Yeah.
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And it wasn't. I think it's a good point on your part. We have the NBA Finals back tonight. Did you see the prices of these tickets in New York?
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I haven't.
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What is 5,000? 5,000. I mean it's like, it's like a Super bowl ticket when you're thinking about the size of, of that building or lack thereof.
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So game three, they're like five grand going for like where it's.
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It is like anywhere in the building. It is. It's.
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It not.
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People are, are spending ungodly sums of money on this. Right.
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We were, we were talking a couple nights ago, Natalie and I, about like how cool it would. I think having been recently to a game at msg. Like how cool it would be to be there, though, for. For the NBA Finals.
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Yes. Yeah. Well, it's always cool to be there first.
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Yeah, it is, but I'm always not paying five grand.
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Well, but. But for some people, that's nothing. It's. It's just. It's no money at all.
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We ain't some people, Dan.
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That's right. Well, if you want to bet on these finals, you should. The NBA playoffs, easy money at my bookie. The NBA Finals, easy money. And they're gonna be easy money when I give you my DBU picks late in the show. Also, because that's going to be NBA Finals related. If you want a crazy parlay, I may have one for you. But you don't need one. You don't need spreadsheets. Pick a team. Look at the number. I think spurs by six is. Is what the number is. This is one where if the Knicks win this one next. Win this one, then. Then it's.
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It's.
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It's.
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Oh.
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Oh, time for a lot of people here. So this I would clarify or clear. I would classify this as a. As a must for the Spurs. So go ahead and back them if you want. If you're new to my bookie, if you've never made a deposit, there's less reason to sit this one out. When you go to MyBookie AG, when you register, when you deposit, use the promo code DBU. And any bet you choose up to 500 is fully covered. What does that mean? It means if you make that play and it doesn't hit, you get it right back because you've opted in using your bet back bonus token. Pick your squad. Knicks, spurs, take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs. Cash in on them. Only at my bookie. All right, I. The story of the day. I've held it, but the story of the day.
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I can't believe this.
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I can't believe the timeline. Yep. So this was on. What is the. Today is the 5th.
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Today's Friday the 5th.
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Friday the 5th. So on the 3rd, shortly after we finished recording DBU, and if you remember to take you back a mere two days.
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Oh, another guy.
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I mean, your two days.
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Yes.
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Topgolf has been without a gun arrest for six months. And the beauty of it, though, is
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how long were you holding onto the story? Because you had the story for that. We couldn't. We couldn't do it. We didn't have time for several days.
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Right. So I'm like, okay, well, this is this is a thing I want to get to this, that they're celebrating six months without a gun arrest at a place that had 46. 46 gun arrests. Because Topgolf in Naperville was becoming a meeting place for transactions, shall we say, and. Or just having a lot of people there who like to leave guns in plain sight in their cars. So stupid people. Because you got to be really, really, really stupid to leave a gun in plain sight in your car. Especially. I don't know, maybe after 20 arrests, 30 arrests to be the next 16 of those, 46. But. But here. Here came the Naperville police with a press conference to publicly celebrate six months without. Without a gun arrest at topgolf Naperville. Look at us. Look what we've done. What is the guy's name? Rich Krakow or whoever your sheriff was. Nobody brings guns anymore. We've won. Mission accomplished. This was like George W. Bush standing on the aircraft carrier in San Diego with a big banner. Mission accomplished. We have ended the scourge of open carry of guns in the parking lot of the Naperville topgolf. So you set a date because I said we had a chance to do the funniest thing ever. And you said what, June 17th?
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17th. Because it was the third we talked about this. So I gave it two weeks. I said, take what the. You know, take the over. The under. Mm. And you took the under. You said that there would be another gun arrest before June 17th. I said would go after. I even said if they make it one year, we would record shows there from a bay while hitting balls and having great lunch.
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Have they made it a year? That would. That would have happened. I took the under. Now I just. Thank you to those who sent this in from various places when it broke. We have some insiders within the news industry that got word of this from their official channels. So thank you. You know who you are, but I don't have to name you.
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So we. We said this around 10am on Wednesday, June 3rd.
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We did. Oh, we did. I'll read you the text from the Daily Herald with a picture of the mug shot of Jamin Roberts. A felon was ordered held in jail Pre trial in DuPage county after being arrested with a loaded firearm outside Naperville's Topgolf facility Wednesday. I don't know if it's Jamin or Jamon. Roberts, 29, is charged with aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, and unlawful possession of a weapon without a Valid FOID card or concealed carry license. Prosecutors said police were patrolling the Topgolf parking lot Wednesday when they spotted the handle of a firearm in a bag inside a vehicle. Roberts and two women returned to the vehicle. Roberts entered the driver's side and was ultimately arrested after police uncovered a loaded Glock 9 millimeter handgun. Roberts is scheduled to appear in court again on June 30th. Congratulations, Naperville Police on your six months.
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Yeah, so they go into the building and they had to take down the sign. Like 183 days without an incident.
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I picture a big. A big plunger button and it resets.
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So now they're at two. Two days.
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Two days without an arrest. We are 47. We are up to 47 gun arrests now at the Naperville Topgolf after you had celebrated vict victory. Victory over gun possessors. You don't come to Naperville and you especially don't come to topgolf anymore because of the success of our. What? Never mind.
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Yeah,
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I gotta go. I just got a text. I gotta go.
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All right, well, you win that bet and we don't get to do a show, so.
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All right, so what do I win?
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You win. Recognition. Thank you.
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Thank you. Validation. You remember I am a. A bottomless pit of a validation craving.
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Yes.
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The more I can get.
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Way to pick the under on that. Yes.
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Yes.
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And I'm an idiot for picking the. Over. Didn't even last two hours, I don't think.
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I think. I honestly think in real time it might have been less than that. We don't know. I actually. I could go back and see actually with the. If we could find. And I think it's probably in the police report. Like it could have been 30 seconds after we said it.
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I mean, you go out of your way to congratulate the city of Naperville and the police in Naperville and within. I mean, you know, within the same day. Within hours. Who knows?
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I don't know.
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Six months.
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Let me see. Exactly.
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Down the drain here.
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Hold on. Let me see if there's a. If there is a time on this. Okay, let's see. Because this is. This is the actual report here. Oh, nope. June 3rd at approximately 7:30pm okay, so there.
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It was about nine hours.
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About nine hours after we said it. But they. It lasted nine hours.
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But just double checking, though, nine hours is less than two weeks.
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Correct. Thank you.
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Yeah. You did win. You did win. Congratulations.
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Thanks so much. And now you. Now you've been teasing and I've been good because you said don't look up the story. I don't. I want you to hear it first. And you are so excited about this that I'm. I'm gonna lay out while you give us the. The last story we're gonna do before Friday. Feedback.
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This is so good. So, two days ago, before the first finals game, before game one of the Knicks and Spurs, the X account, Twitter account for Elmo. Elmo, the Sesame street character.
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The character.
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The character. The official account for Elmo put out a tweet that said, elmo hopes both teams have fun with four basketballs.
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Elmo hopes both teams have fun.
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There were over 1000 replies. It was viewed over 12 million times. It was retweeted almost 5000 times. I went to the. The comments, the replies. The first one. This ain't the time for sportsmanship, Elmo. These streets ain't sesame. The official Wendy's account. Wendy's, the fast food restaurant? Of course not. Now, Elmo, all in capital letters and a Twitter account. The Knicks wall says, pick a side, coward.
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Wait, hold on. I've got. Can I ask a question here? And I'm sure it's addressed. Okay. Sesame street, even though we know it's not placed, is New York.
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Is New York. Yes, it's. You are correct on that.
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Brooklyn, right? Isn't Sesame Street.
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It's Brooklyn.
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The brownstones and the stoops and the, you know, knowing your grocer and all of that and knowing your repairman and. And. And garbage out front.
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Yes.
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There's no alleys in Brooklyn. Garbage cans are in the front next to the stoop. That's why Oscar is where he is instead of in the alley, because there are no alleys.
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So here's. Here's more comments. Elmo, you're from the city. Pick a side, man. Elmo, you're from New York City, little buddy. It's okay to root for the Knicks. Pick a side. P word.
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Wait, did they say P word? Did they use the P word?
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Used it.
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They called Elmo that.
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Yes. Here's another one. No Elmo.
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Elbow that.
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Yes. No Elmo. Let's go, fucking Nicks. You're from fucking New York.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I gotta love Knicks fans.
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You supposed to be one of us, Elmo. Hang on, hang on. I love Knicks fans.
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I.
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Wait, there's more. There's more. I'm just gonna scroll through these. Elmo, you my man's. But you. You can't be from New York. Elmo says both teams have fun. But he placed a bet on the Knicks no way, Elmo. We say, go, Nicks. Elmo. Blink twice if Big bird is holding you hostage.
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Was there a response from Elmo?
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Hang on, hang on.
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Okay.
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It says, you better pick a side, Elmo. Elmo's world is a subway ride from the garden. He's out here playing Switzerland. Do better.
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Thank you. Thank you. That's like you're there.
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Knock it off and pick a side. Ain't you from the city, Elmo? This is the first time I'm not rocking with you. You gotta root for the city, man. That Elmo. Nick's in six. Now, when I go get Zoe and Rocco, don't say to me, Elmo
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pulling Zoe's card out there.
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Elmo is the dad. Rocco.
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Rocco's the pet rock, right?
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I have no idea.
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Yes.
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So Zoe is.
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Zoe has a pet rock named Rocco. And the. The ongoing bit is that Elmo is flummoxed, as I understand it, by the idea of the pet rock. Like he kind of shares with the audience. Like, I can't believe she actually talks to the thing. Isn't it just a rock?
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Okay.
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It's been an ongoing bit. Yeah.
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All right, here's another one. It says, elmo is the dad in the family group chat. Here's one. You Elmo. Only one can win. Nah. You either pick the Knicks or you the enemy. You have black from the city. Lock it in.
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Mo. You're a black kid from the city.
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Lock it in.
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Lock it in.
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Sesame Street. This is all capital letters. Sesame street was filmed in nyc. You fucking sell out.
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Oh, this is glorious.
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It's so good.
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This is glorious. Did any nicks. Was there any official response from a Nick or anything themselves?
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No, not that I've seen.
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Even like a. Come on, man.
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Sesame Street's located in New York City, which makes Elmo a lifelong New Yorker.
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Yeah, he's. He's a. He's a brother from Brooklyn.
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So Elmo did have a response, though. He. He actually said nicks. All the capital letters. Nicks. That last message. Elmo didn't mean to spur you on.
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Now he's just being a jerk. Now he's just trolling.
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I love it. It's so good. You got to go through and read some of these. It's so funny.
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Yeah, I bet there's one.
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Yeah, there's over a thousand.
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Yeah, that's fantastic.
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But I mean, the. The vulgarity, the name calling, it's so bad.
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You're. You're a brother from the hood.
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Lock it in. Lock it in. Mo.
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That's my Favorite.
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You're a black kid from the city.
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Lock it in, lock it in. Apostrophe mo.
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Let's see. So good.
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Well done. Oh, that.
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That is.
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And. And. Oh, but now they should. People paying $5000, these tickets. Gotta bring Elmo puppets. And I mean, you. That should be a thing, right? Turn it in. Turn it into a deal. Like, like. Or. Or, you know, play sound drops of Elmo.
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Well, you saw what the. Well, you. You watched the game, obviously, the day you heard when they did the Knicks intros, the music they played.
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No, I didn't. I didn't. I usually don't see intros. I turn it on a tip off.
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Let me see if I could. If I could find it real quick, because I had it.
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There's all kinds of opportunities for. For pettiness and stuff like that. I, I'm. I'm here for all of the petty. I don't know what kids show that's from. I. I don't know, the kids show Barney or something.
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I don't know. But it's not very NBA appropriate.
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No, it's not exactly going to get them. Get them going. Yeah.
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But I thought you'd enjoy the. The almost of. It's great. All right.
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As I mentioned, if. If you. In fact, you crafted something and you did everything you could possibly do to. To put your thoughts on paper. If I. I can't get to everything that was written. And thank you for all your work. This is. This was the toughest cut to make yet.
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Hey, do me a favor. Before we get into Friday feedback, give me. Give me windows, okay?
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Oh, I'll give you windows.
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I want to hear more about Russ Armstrong.
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I miss.
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I miss hearing about Russ.
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I know everybody does because he's a wonderful man. And the great thing is he actually is an individual person who happens to be making windows here in. In and around Chicago, rather than being one of these national or international window conglomerates that doesn't have the same connection to you or to the city. And that's why I recommend Russ, because I was intimidated by the idea of buying windows. And he makes it so easy. You just call him. He comes to the house, he looks around, you talk about windows for a little bit. He gives you a number. He said, this is what we're working with. We do this, it's going to be this. We do this, it's going to be this. Give me a little bit of time to make the windows. Let me measure. Let me make the windows. And I said, what do you mean, you? Because. Yeah, I'm going to go to my factory. We're going to make the windows for your house. And he's in charge of everything. So. And then he'll text and he'll say, we will expect three days, two days, we'll be out there tomorrow. Is that okay? And then when his people are there, he's texting. Is everything clean? Is everything to your satisfaction? You're going to get the same treatment when you call. 847-302-9171. He's got all kinds of great reviews. 5 stars@chicagowindowguys.com the price match guarantee. Go ahead, get your quotes. Have other people around giving you these full PowerPoint presentations on all their windows and then giving you a number. Okay, great. That's awesome. Well, Russ is going to match any price. Also know that when there are people in your house, when you're dealing with him, they're not randos. It's not just people they're picking up out of a parking lot and throwing into a van and slapping a logo on the van and saying it's party. They're all people that work directly for us. It's his crew. So you have that peace of mind as well. And the windows are great and I know for a fact because they're better than what our original builder put in. And I have recommended them to neighbors who had same houses, same builder, same success with Russ's windows and everybody else who's used them. There's just no reason not to. 8473029171 and check out his five star review reviews@chicagowindowguys.com all right, we ready?
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Yes, sir.
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We're good here. Okay. And I this is in in the only order. I'm going to do it in the order in which a lot of these came in and I go through and I read and stuff. This is from Jay. I don't know where to send this for Friday feedback Friday. So, Dan and Matt, this is regarding Forward progress on May 29th. I think you're missing an important distinction in Ben Johnson's offensive philosophy. The way you described it is that Johnson can create a play with multiple answers. Caleb finds the open receiver. That's a different offensive philosophy. Mike Martz was doing that with the greatest show on turf. Flood a zone, stress the coverages. When we talk about Johnson scheming people open, I think that's a fundamentally different concept. He's not trying to get everybody open. He's trying to get one specific player open by Manipulating the defense and the other players may be sacrifices, not intended options. Think of a chess grandmaster, a piece sacrifice, not because it lacks value, but because sacrificing it creates a larger advantage. Two or three moves later and Johnson does the same thing. He'll gladly send two receivers on routes with almost no chance of getting the football if it widens. A safety moves, a linebacker influences a corner. Their job isn't to get the ball, it's to create the opening. Two series later, he'll show the defense the exact same look. The player who benefited the first time becomes the sacrifice. The sacrifice becomes the beneficiary. That's where the magic happens. You're absolutely right that Ben Johnson doesn't seem interested in force feeding a traditional number one. It is not because he's philosophically opposed to stars. If feeding the same receiver every week gave his offense the best chance to score points, he'd do it without hesitation. The Randy ratio should have taught everybody this lesson years ago. The moment a defense knows where the ball is supposed to go, it gains information. Johnson's not anti star, he's anti predictability. If you want to extend the chess analogy, X receiver is the bishop attacking from distance, stressing the defense vertically. The slot is the knight moving in unexpected ways, creating problems from unusual angles. The tight end is the queen, the most versatile piece on the board, capable of hurting you anywhere. Johnson's genius is he doesn't become attached to any one piece. He uses each one to create advantages for the others. And excites me that this feels like the opposite of the Nege. Offense plays with names like Santa's Sleigh and the Ass Kicking Chicken. As Dan has said about Negie many times with Nege, the play itself was the point. With Johnson, it's not. The individual play isn't the point. The sequence is the point. The opening sets up the middle game. The middle game is setting up the end game. His offense isn't a collection of plays. It's a chess match. I thought that was really cool.
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So that is really good. And I love the, the chess analogy, but it's, it's interesting because the pieces in Ben Johnson's chessboard don't always adhere to the same movements and he'll do different things with them to correct create different opportunities. Because if you get stuck into a pattern, then you get, you get found.
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Brad says that's a great.
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Who was that?
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That was Jay.
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Jay.
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Brad says off the Ivy you did a segment about travel, baseball, parents being horrible, and I've been a travel baseball parent and a coach for a long time and occasionally, and occasionally been a bad travel baseball parent myself. My youngest son just graduated high school. I'm done with that life. You'll miss it. There are a lot of parents who are completely delusional about their own kids ability and future in the sport. It's hard to be around. 99% of those kids have no chance of playing ML. Any parent who plans on their kid playing in MLB's off their rocker. However. However, I want to take issue with what you said. Something along the lines of your kid lives in Illinois, they're not going to play in the NBA or the mlb. That didn't feel right to me based on recent experience. So I did a little digging and it turns out players from Illinois have the sixth highest accumulated WAR in MLB history. In 2025, there were 26 MLB players who played their high school baseball in Illinois, including Mike Tauchman, Nikki Lopez and Nick Martini. That's not an insignificant number of players. I'm not bringing this up to argue that parents who truly believe their kid will play in the MLB aren't nuts.
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Yarn.
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I wanted to point out a factual inaccuracy about the quality of baseball players in Illinois. Okay, I stand corrected there.
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He told you, Dan.
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No, but it's. Look, it's. It's all good.
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I think it's good. It's good stuff to support that and share that. Thanks for sending it in. I think overall though, you're looking at the. It's the opportunities of playing year round. That's, that's all the point I think you're at.
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So yeah, Ted and Alex, weather sucks and weather blows. He said, guys, I saw a Hershey's commercial starring Patrick Rena. You know that name?
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I do know the name. Why do I know that name?
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He's the Great Hambino, AKA Hamilton Porter from the sandlot. Okay. In the commercial, Rena makes a s' more for what seems to be his son. No mention of his name, no mention of his character or anything other than his line, I'm kind of famous for this. To which his commercial son says, you're famous and the commercial ends. That's it. No mention of the sandlot, no mention of the hambino. Not even. I'm Patrick Rena and I recommend Hershey. Just a nod to those who know it's a non arakpo. He said, I think you and Mattie have discussed the sandlot and s' mores alternative recipes. A nice little bow tie for a well done non or rakpo.
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Yeah, that's great. And I think if you. If you see Patrick Rena, you know, you may not know his name, but you see his face, you say, oh, yeah, I know that kid. That's the kid from Sandlot. See, you know that. I love it. That's great.
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I've never seen. I've never seen the Sandlot in its entirety. And when I have seen it, I can just tell you it's a terrible movie.
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Oh, yeah, because you don't like good sports movies.
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So it's not a good sports movie. It is a. It is a bad movie.
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Yep. Well, this. Yeah, we'll disagree to this.
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I'm not saying it's not important to people and people like it, but you can miss me with all the Sandlot.
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Yeah. When it comes to sports movies, you're the last guy I'd reach out to.
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A note from Nick. I'm only half joking when I say the Bears latest bungle is Roger Goodell's fault. For a commissioner who prides himself on being in the know and meting out justice for bounty Gate and Tom Brady's lacking balls, how much of his $64 million salary should be allocated to protecting the McCaskey family from poking themselves in the eye with pipe cleaners under the impression it was a friendly caterpillar? Call them the Bluths or a collection of Fredos. But going back to Planet park or the dry hump that amounted to a stadium with the league's smallest capacity justified for checks notes the league's third largest market, how did Goodell allow this pack of weirdos to to operate independently of league oversight with so much money at stake? Forgive me, but George and company seem like a rather impressionable group who would embrace tinkering from the league office since none of them have bothered to learn anything about constructing an NFL roster. Nor have they seemed to have learned the right lessons from the two blunders mentioned in the previous paragraph. We always hear the NFL is a much better product when the Bears are good. And yet Goodell could have back channeled a name or names to the family to see them through the move out of Chicago. He must have known how much Warren's efforts in Minneapolis were the stuff of kabuki theater. Not to mention how he managed to piss off Jim Harbaugh and do little else in the performative role as Big Ten commissioner. At the end of the day, it's the McCaskey's fault for not knowing any better. But how many more times does big Rog need to see ineptitude in action before he steps in.
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Good stuff.
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Good question. Good question. Joey said, stop talking about the Madden curse. Stop talking about the Madden curse. You want your cover stars since 2016 by year Odell Beckham Jr. Rob Gronkowski, Tom Brady, Antonio Brown, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Brady and Mahomes. Dead guy honor for John Madden, Josh Allen, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley. Curses are fake. Let us have nice things.
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Fine.
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All right, then.
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Have you. I'm. I'm sure you haven't. The. There's a lengthy trailer put out by the Madden game with Vince Vaughn and Caleb Williams where I'm not. Vince Vaughn is like the general manager of the video game franchise. Okay. It's really funny. It's. It's lengthy, but it's. It's really entertaining.
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Okay, I like.
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Yeah, I. I like Vince Vaughn quite a bit. It's a really funny, funny thing to watch.
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Tom in Dallas. Guys, after today's show and five glasses of Bordeaux, it has driven me to finally write a rebuttal. Save for your disparaging marks on weighted vests, you have yet to correct this. Stadium failure isn't about Kevin Warren and his ego, only challenges with difficult Illinois politicians or McCaskey ineptitude. It's all three, and it starts at the top. And no, Virginia would not have fired Kevin Warren by now. She's just as culpable in this failure. Did she fire Sweaty Teddy after three straight GM hiring failures? No. Did she fire after a horrible Soldier Field renovation, the lack of a local option to play their season while the renovation happened after a 13. Three season? No. There's a reason why the Bears lead the league in penalty discrepancy. The league hates the Bears. They've always hated the McCaskeys. This is the latest example of the ineptitude of Nepo babies with zero experience in leadership and the inability to lead any type of organization. It starts with Virginia, who reorganized the family shares to render the rest of her family powerless and steal the franchise from everyone else. For years she hid behind her faith and her old lady mystique when in reality she was evil. We can go full tinfoil hat on the death of Muggs Hallis and the weirdness of the lack of an autopsy. It's a wild rabbit hole that I would need another bottle of Bordeaux to go over. And now years of the failure of Virginia and the rest of the ownership group to create any form of wealth or build a deal to create investable wealth from a $10 billion asset is astounding. It's holding the entire league back from higher revenue shares. My dream has been and will always be to have these idiots sell the Bears once the stadium is built. And that $15 billion valuation will be too big to ignore. With so many McCaskey mouths to feed and the growing consumerism of current and incoming generations, I was too hopeful that Warren would reroute the ship. But he's been a con. This group couldn't find a competent leader if it dick slapped him in the face. We're in an unfortunate place where until the family sells this entity, we're sitting in this position. Thanks for reading. Thanks, Tom. Thanks for sending Great stuff, Tom.
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But my only question for you, if you're getting five glasses out of a bottle, that's not big enough of a pour.
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I think it's six glasses. A bottle isn't what they say.
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It's too small of a pour.
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Four glasses a bottle.
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Three, I think. Yeah, I would go three.
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A note from Chris here's my question. Why is everybody so outraged? I get it. The Bears are incompetent. It's emblematic. Warren's a charlatan bad at his job. I can't figure out who's made worse off by the fumbled approach. I'm a season ticket holder. I like outdoor games. I prefer them closer to my house in the city. And I suspect by definition most existing holders prefer what they signed up for. A new stadium zeros out. My PCL forces me to buy, or PSL forces me to buy. A replacement raises my ticket prices. There's a material cost of $50,000. Excuse me? There's a material cost to 50,000 of us when they build the stadium every year without a new one is a win. But the other constituencies, fans who don't attend games, be agnostic. At worst, city taxpayers marginally better off for a game that stays in Chicago. I get that there are people scared of losing the Bears. These are not smart people. If it ends in Hammond, Indiana, payers financing a venue near the city line, that's not really a loss. In the meantime, we all win. Every year. They pay rent at Soldier Field and property tax in Arlington Heights. So who loses? Bears ownership. That's the entire list. The family mismonetizing its own asset is funny to laugh at. I can't muster up an ounce of the outrage everyone else seems to have. What am I missing? I don't get the sense that there's as much outrage as there is amusement or feeling like we've been sold. I think feeling conned feeling like fans have been sold a bit. I think it's the lying and the misrepresentation more than it is the actual outcome Would be my answer to some of that stuff. Yeah, it's been a while, but guess who's out. Stone cutter.
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I was going to say stone cutter.
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It is. It's stone cutter. Kevin Warren is a con man and bravo to Canuck Boy for his timeline. But we can't be surprised. And I don't mean that in an lol McCaskey sense. I mean it in a Bernie Madoff forced the sale of the Mets way and Eddie Lampert ran his little jerk off Ayn Rand fantasy playbook and destroyed Sears way, An Enron Way, an NFT's way. How about in a Steve Ballmer allegedly blatantly circumvented the NBA salary cap way? Or the MLB owners are constantly crying poor way? Or the fact that a person who most often calls my phone is a lovely Polynesian woman who calls herself Spam likely way. Or maybe in a the Dow is somehow at 50,000. But don't worry, I'm sure AI isn't actually a bubble. I'm sure the Uber CEO was lying when he said they can't figure out what the ROI is on AI and and now they have to pay the actual cost rather than the highly subsidized cost they've been paying the last three years. Every dipshit CFO is starting to ask some questions and I don't think the market is going to like the answer way. I could continue. You get the point. Rich guys and poor guys get conned at similar rates. The McCaskeys aren't that special. And hell, every family business that grows beyond a certain modest size is run by a family where at least one person subscribes to a magazine for an organization called like Patriot Castle or let's do the Bay of Pigs Again or Restore Rhodesia or gun Drive down 294 point to a factory. Is it family owned? Yeah. Well, that family is the Christmas adventurers. By nearly any standard. The McCaskeys are normal people who are not cut out for big business because they find it distasteful. And you know what? Good for them. It is distasteful. They were the perfect mark. We're all subject to scams, beholden to con men in nearly every facet of our lives, even if we aren't directly falling for them. There's little Kevin Warrens puttering around C Suites, glad handing, taking credit for someone else's work, getting a job for their buddy who sucks. When you were in school, you knew you had a few teachers who even as a kid you could tell, legitimately kind of sucked. They too are Kevin Warren. Kevin Warren is genderless. My point being, George, it's okay. We all get over every now and then. Stop letting Kevin Warren make it worse.
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It's good stuff.
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That good. They're. They're all good. Unemployed lawyer says. Whoa, whoa, hold up a second. I'm a Sox fan. I've been a Sox fan. I like the Cubs. I cheered for the Cubs to win last year in the playoffs. We don't hate the Cubs. We hate certain Cubs fans all the time. My friends nag me for being a Sox fan. Loser, bum, you suck. And so on. Dan, I share your grief. My best friends are huge Cubs fans. I don't want the Cubs to lose, but I want them to be in baseball misery every day. The Sox have a better record than the Cubs. I get to put years of revenge into this. I had a Packers fan teacher, years of heartbreak, age 13. It's led the me to the prime age to gloat. I don't drool over the Cubs loss. I get to exact my revenge against the braggers. So Dan, reconsider this. Some people are jerk off Sox fans. Some people just want to get back. Never judge a book by its cover. If I may. You're a jerk off Sox fan, unemployed lawyer. You just defined it.
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But also, if we. If we don't judge books by their cover, who's going to hate us then, right?
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Come on.
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Yeah. That's the whole point of it.
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Let us all do our jobs here.
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Please.
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Just. Just understand what's going on here.
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Please stay in your lane, bro.
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Jordan and St. Charles. Gentlemen. Victor Wembanyama, the first human qualified enough to utter the phrase I am him without lying, is known for stretching the imagination when it comes to off court and pre game fits. Some highlights include his homage to Slender man back in 2023. The Is it she or Sheisty? He paired with Wookiee shoes for the 2024 home opener and his 2026 All Star weekend choice of a custom Marty supreme themed jacket. No doubt to give a much needed boost to the up and coming Hollywood wannabe Timothee Chalamet. Best of luck to that young fella. As he navigated the well plumbed underbelly of Frostbank center before Game 6 of the Western Conference finals, the French phenom spotted in a dark green thobe, which he later explained was a quiet tribute to the followers of Islam who had widely celebrated is it Eid? I believe Eid earlier that week either. Ide While Wembanyama himself doesn't openly subscribe to any religion, his exploration of spirituality is well documented and celebrated. American sports media, ever ready to interrupt a few seconds of research with a bout of bourbon flavored ignorance, slurred their way through the post game presser when an uncorrected member of the Monolith asked Dylan Harper if he knew Wemby was going to come out with that hot start after showing up in what he called a Shaolin monk robe. Now I'll admit this latest moment of potentially petty pedantry shouldn't justify overly harsh criticism of the well meaning journo for misidentifying subtle differences in the outerwear of two divisions of the devout. It's what I would say if 5G weren't a thing, if Muslims didn't make up a full quarter of the Earth's population, and if Wemby himself didn't actually train at a Shaolin temple last June. The kicker in a shade of gray befitting novices and visitors, he was photographed in an actual monk robe. So while we're incentivizing streaks without gun arrests at the Naperville Top Golf can we encourage a single day of unified American existence without looking like we all jerk off to Toby Keith's greatest Hits? Please. I did that one time.
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Come on.
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Right? One time doesn't make it a pattern. A few more here because it just Like I say, this is this is the best week ever for submissions. Mr. Mr. Pouty Pants.
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Oh wow.
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Yes. I think you're the first person I've heard ask the question I've been asking. What is the status of the Bears and actual stadium designs? We're hearing all about the lack of a traffic study or an environmental impact study. Yeah, they're important, but what about the construction documents for either site? Have civil engineers designed a site plan? Are there actual architectural drawings? Not lame renderings and pretty pictures? Actual architectural drawings to be used for construction, showing all the details. Emergency egress plans, accessibility routes, required materials. How about MEP and H VAC calculations? Drawings to ensure all Kevin Warren's bathrooms work and the dome is the proper temperature? Never mind structural engineering that needs to be done to be sure all this actually stands up with 80,000 people jumping around after a touchdown or at a concert. I'm just your friendly neighborhood structural engineer who will probably never work on a building this size. But I can only imagine how long it will take to do the designs and calculations for a stadium that doesn't even have a final location yet. Given that the Bears have done almost all of this in the worst way, my guess is they don't have anything close to this actual set of construction documents. Even if by some miracle, George McCaskey and the entire board of directors officially announced the final stadium location in the next few days, we are probably years away from seeing cranes in the air.
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Hey, why is it the. The people in. In Hammond and Indiana have. Have said, oh, hopefully we'll get an answer from the Bears before, you know, by the end of June. Why wouldn't you just say, hey, this deal fell through. Are you coming here or not?
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Right. Again, you can call their bluff, right?
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This deal's off the table by Friday. You have till noon today to accept.
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Because they know. That's why. When I heard the mayor of Hammond speaking like, I don't know. We hope. We hope they choose us. We hope they choose us. That's. That's what I thought. I heard him saying it publicly. We can't really do much other than put it out there.
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Just say, yeah, this deal expires noon Friday.
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Yep, that's it. And either you're coming or you're not, right?
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If you're not coming, great. And if you do great, we're here.
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Jason says. Guys, I want to drop some feedback. I'm disappointed, Dan, in your stance regarding taxpayer money and billionaire stadium owners. Since when is transferring money from working class families to wealthy elites considered a bad thing? That's one of our nation's oldest traditions. My grandfather worked 38 years at a tool and dye plant just so a hedge fund manager could eventually get a tax break. That's the American dream. And trust me, I know economics. I earned a C grade in consumer education in high school. I regularly submit Menards rebates. If we stop giving public money to billionaires, what's next? Make them pay for their own stadiums? Their own retractable roofs? That sounds a little European if you ask me. Back in my day, if a billionaire wanted a dome, the public built it and thanked him for the opportunity. Get a grip, Bernstein.
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I like that font.
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Here is Cam in Bridgeport.
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Hello, Cam in Bridgeport.
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I caught the segment on the White Sox Cubs rivalry and the psychology behind that specific slice of White Sox fans who seem to get their biggest highs not from the Sox winning, but from watching the Cubs lose. It's a fascinating little corner of sports fandom, and it's worth unpacking from two angles. First, the fun part? It's a rivalry. Let's own it. That's literally the point. For 150 plus years, these two teams been stuck in the same city sharing the same fans attention, the same media market and let's be honest, a whole lot of the same heartbreak leaning into the trash talk. I don't care if we finish last as long as The Cubs finish 29th. Energy the group text roasts when the other team blows a lead. It's pure, harmless rivalry fuel. It's why we love sports. It turns barbecues, family holidays, office chatter and a little battlegrounds and a healthy dose of screw the other guys is what makes being a sports fan feel alive. That's the rivalry doing its job. Here's the second angle, and it's been rattling around in my head at some point. Growing up means learning to root for other people's success, even when it doesn't directly help you think about it. Outside sports. You got a best friend who lands a big promotion. Your first instinct shouldn't be, damn, it should have been me. It should be genuine happiness for them. They're your guy. You want good things for the people in your circle. Same with family, co workers, whoever. That shift from envy to empathy is one of the quiet markers of emotional adulthood. It doesn't mean you stop chasing your own goals. It just means you stop measuring your own worth by how badly someone else fails. So we bring this back to Chicago baseball. The south side and north side aren't actually at war. World stuck on the same train lines. We're paying the same taxes. We're complaining about the same lake effect winters. When the Cubs won the World Series, the city felt electric. It was Chicago winning something huge. When the Sox have their moments as we wait on the next one, plenty of Cubs fans quietly pull for him, too. That's not a betrayal of your team. It's recognizing Both squads represent the same city we all call home. The fans who get their rocks off exclusively for the Cubs losing strike me as one still operating in pre grown up mode, where someone else's success feels like a personal subtraction from their own scoreboard. Classic schadenfreude. And sports gives it a socially acceptable costume. It's the same wiring that makes people secretly root against their buddy's promotion or quietly resent a neighbor's new car over time. That mindset doesn't make you a more miserable fan. It makes you a more miserable person. You end up spending more emotional energy hoping the other guy trips than you do cheering your own team across the finish line. Rivalries are great because they're passionate, but the best ones are the ones where you can still tip your cap when the other side does something special, then go right back to wanting to beat their brains in the next series. That's the sweet spot. It keeps the fun alive without turning into the kind of genuinely bitter zero sum resentment that sucks the joy out of the game and honestly, out of life. Just some thoughts from a guy who loves the rivalry and the idea we can all grow up a little while still keeping the trash talk sharp.
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Very good.
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Very, very good.
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He should have. Should have addressed that engagement party.
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That's really good now.
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Good stuff. Let me. I'm.
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I'm going to close with. Wait. You should have addressed the engagement party.
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What did I say out loud?
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What? I'm. I missed that.
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What do you mean?
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Is there something I don't know? No, I don't know. Okay.
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Yeah.
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No, okay.
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Just saying, that engagement party that it was at the cell. Those words of wisdom, that's all.
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Oh, that part. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, I gotcha. Kevin.
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I don't know what you mean.
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Kevin in Jefferson Park.
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Hello, Kevin in Jefferson Park.
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This will close out a memorable edition of Friday Feedback Friday. There's some really smart people that have time to craft a lot of really smart things. I love this Kevin. First wishes everybody. Mummy gut yeast to you all. Thank you. He says stellar work this week bringing both the fine print and the fire in regards to the Bears stadium debacle and watching the sure thing turn into the boondoggle it is reaching out blob like to suck in and devour monetary and intellectual resources has been galling. And hearing this whole case laid out with an appropriate amount of what the fuck behind it is honestly comforting. I remember hearing Warren was coming to the Bears after the Big Ten job and thinking why? I'd only known him as the guy who was bullied into Big Ten scheduling games he'd initially whacked during COVID by Proto Maha. Parent groups who couldn't bear the thought of their precious sons not being allowed to compromise their brain health on top of potential respiratory calamity. After that, I'd occasionally hear someone climb out of the airwaves to shine Warren's apple for one deal or another, praise that coarse age like cottage cheese on the hood of a Dodge in August. These past few days. The continued water carrying for him after the hire was persistent enough that I was worn down to an okay, let's see, as you mentioned this week that evaporated after the 4:30am Bible mummery in front of the statue of Papa Bear Hallis. Since then he's been infuriating while sticking his hand directly into our collective pocket. So this week's continued pantsing has been most pleasing. It makes the potential miracle of Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams all the more miraculous. People have pumped McCaskeys for whatever they want consistently these past 15 years. Trace Armstrong should have a boat named thanks George after getting fat feeding the bears his cadre of vacant eyed nitwits. For one of the people to kick the door in and say, listen motherfuckers, this is my job and this is how we're doing it. And for it to be the head coach and for it to work this well so far, that's a miracle. Proving the Bears are only mostly dead. He says, thanks for talking 82. And oh, I love, love, love that game, whatever it is. It got me through a two and a half hour bus ride this week. It kept me from trying to find out if the damn thing would go faster if I opened the door and got under it. And I got a Perfecto. 60s Oscar Robertson, 70s Dr. J, 90s Jordan, 90s Duncan, 20s Jokic. The first of my group chat to go full Rocky Marciano. Those other men in my group chat distracted by things like child care. That'll show them. Dan, watch out for the Blackbirds. Maddie, watch out for Dan. Stan Van Gundy pillow
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on that 82. And oh, note, there was a one sent to me from one of our, one of our listeners, Jared. Yeah, he went 82 0. He had Oscar Robinson, Oscar Robertson. Yeah, the 60s, Luca of the 2000s, Kawhi Leonard of the 2010s, Al Jefferson of the 2010s and Kareem of the 1970s. When 82 0.
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That's pretty sweet. Like, see I, I think that that is, that's the best. How can you go 820 with the worst possible player at one position?
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Man, that'd be so hard. I, I'm, I know my best is still 77 wins. I haven't been able to top that yet.
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I think I've only played a handful of times. I didn't get to play it all yesterday because I've been, I was, I was out catching two tiny little fish all afternoon. I had a rough one yesterday. Right. It's tough. I may, I may actually do the unthinkable and go by nitro worms.
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Oh, here's another one too from one of our guys, Dave. He went 82 0. Yeah, he had Oscar Robertson of the 70s, Milwaukee, Sydney Moncrief. Oh, my God. It's an all Milwaukee team.
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No, that went 82 0.
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Oscar Robertson, Sidney Moncrief, Marquis Johnson.
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Marcus Johnson.
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Yeah, Marcus Johnson, Giannis and Kareem.
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I don't believe him. I don't believe. It's spun five times and it came up bucks every time.
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Well, then there's.
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There's no way that happened. I guess maybe it did. I don't know.
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See, I'm looking at it right here. He sent me the screenshot of it.
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Oh, okay. He did it.
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Good for him.
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Good for him. And good for you. Good for everybody who was a part of Friday Feedback Friday this week. Thank you for all the hard work. And I know it is. There's. It takes time to write these things and, and craft them, and it takes a lot of thought and observational ability. So it's always much appreciated here on dbu. You know, these NBA playoffs are rolling right now, and you should know that there's never a bad time to go to my bookie when you feel that angle. When you've got that something during a game and you're watching spurs and Knicks, or maybe you were watching that hockey game last night that was pretty wild. I come upstairs and usually it's. It's fictional gay hockey sex. But no, I came up there and she was watching actual hockey.
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It was overtime.
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She's. They were. We're going over. I'm like, you're going overtime? I'm going to bed.
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Yeah, we watched the overtime last night.
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I put those. Put those old earbuds in or put headphones on or whatever because I'm. I gotta be on Sherman and tingle at 8:15. I'm Audi. I'm sleeping. So she enjoyed it. I don't know what I missed, but either way, my bookie is there for you when you're watching because you got a chance to turn an opinion into action and you can play on it. If you're starting to feel something and you're starting to say, wait a second, I think I might know what's going to happen. See what the odds are. Check it out. You can do that during the World cup this summer, too, if you really know the beautiful game. Just use the promo code DBU when you sign up and you can claim an exclusive offer just because you're listening. Back your side before the game. Follow all the momentum live. Make the moments you care about feel bigger. That's the reason to check out my bookie. You're already watching you got to take now play it, bet anything, anywhere, anytime. With my bookie. Must be 21 plus. Please gamble responsibly. That brings us to our DBU picks that are presented by my bookie. We have game two between the Knicks and the Spurs. I will give you a prop for a Nick and a prop for a Spur. And if you want to slam them together and make a thing out of it, you can. I like the way the ball is leaving the shooting hand of Landry Shammit right now. So damn it, I'll take Shamet and two or more three pointers. I also am going to play Luke Cornett for one block. One block shot for Luke Cornett. Two threes for Landry Shammit. You have one on either team. Play them individually or play them together. That's my DBU pick.
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All right, I'm going to take the spurs tonight to win game two. I'm going to lay the six points as well. I'm also going to pair that with the spurs having the lead at half halftime. So halftime league, interesting overall, will win and they'll give the six. So that's what I'm gonna go with for tonight in game two.
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There you have it. Lock in your picks now with my bookie. Bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. That is DBU on three. One, two. Wait one.
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One quick thing.
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Hang on.
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Don't close out yet. Why? I sent you a text last night. A picture. Did you see the story of the Eisenhower shut down yesterday for 9 hours?
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Hours. When did you send the text? Was I already asleep?
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No, it was right when we were texting. You just ignored it. So it was a picture of. I didn't know what a guy. That was scrapped on the Eisenhower.
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Okay.
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And so there was a camera crew at the closest gas station. Apparently people getting off when they could to get gas. This was the guy's name that they had on the ABC7 news.
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Okay, I'm gonna hold this up here. Win Win Motorcyclist. Somebody. Somebody got that wrong. Like maybe he had a speech impediment or something. Like it was like.
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It was fine.
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Really? Yes. So you watched it? Okay, I watched it.
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I watched Win Win talk about his experience being trapped on the Eisenhower for eight hours.
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We gotta find him. Did you look him up?
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I did not. I just. I couldn't believe that was his name. I'm like, that's our whole bit.
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His name is Win Wint.
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His name was our whole bit. Okay, whatever is necessary today.
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That can't be a real dude. It absolutely cannot be.
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I thought maybe his. Maybe his first name is Winston.
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Yeah. Or Winfield.
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And he goes by. Yeah, he goes by Win.
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Well, I'm glad we know you, Win. What's your name?
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Wint.
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Whatever is necessary today. What's your first name? Win. Whatever is necessary.
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We have an acronym. It's Win. Whatever is Necessary today.
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Call it Win Whatever is Necessary Today.
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Well, that's not Win, though, Coach. That's Wind. My guy.
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And then his boss just goes, oh, no, no.
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What did we do?
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Why did we put him in front
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of a microphone but Win wins. I want to talk to you, pal.
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There you go. We gotta find that dude. All right, all right, all right. That's it. We can go.
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To have a.
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Have a safe, happy weekend. Here's to all good things and better things, I guess, for everybody. Bye. Dan Bernstein.
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Unfiltered.
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Unfiltered.
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On three.
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One, two, sports.