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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
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Dan Bernstein
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Natalie
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
Guys. Call Russ Armstrong, 847-302-9171, or go to chicagowindowguys.com and by Harley Davidson Woodstock. You can check them out online at Woodstock H D. Great Baseball weekend. Both teams in Chicago come out of the break with series victories, and one team is in first place. Another team, somehow, because of the damn brewers, can win a series and apparently lose ground. What are they, six out now? It's just like you say, Matty. That brewers experience of. Oh, yeah, they're down, they're going to lose. It doesn't happen. I. I still don't believe that any of those losses actually happen. Let's. Let's talk about the. The big news of the week, though, over the weekend.
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Dan Bernstein
My.
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Matt
My, the. The. Wow, that was a loud crack of a can right there, dude. Jesus.
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Natalie
It's the extra loud can. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Matt
My God. That. That. That sounded like I did it with
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Natalie
some extra force, like a little broken
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Matt
bat or something in there. Okay. All right. What do we got there? Is that your coconut garbage? Whatever.
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Natalie
No, it. Tropical fruit one.
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Matt
Okay. Yeah. Stay away from the coconut stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
No, it's not.
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Natalie
It's not garbage.
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Matt
Yeah, Bad coconut. It stays with. Gets in your, like, skin and stuff. I don't know. I. Coke. I can't shake coconut. You have one sip of coconut something.
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Natalie
No, it's pretty good. It's good stuff. Oh, and we'll talk about later on in the. In the podcast here. I did see the Odyssey on Saturday night.
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Matt
You did?
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Natalie
Yeah.
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Matt
So let's talk about it later in imax.
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Natalie
In the imax?
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Matt
Yes. Oh, hell yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
You're springing this on me now.
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Matt
Okay. All right. I can't wait. I got a review from. From my cousin who called it corny ass shit. But. But we shall see. I'm really interested in this. So Theo Epstein is an absolute king, absolute stud. I mean, you can. Whatever you want to talk about, of leading the Boston Red Sox to the World Series win, coming to Chicago, telling everybody what he was going to do and how he was going to do it and. And just saying it's going to be
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Dan Bernstein
bad for a while.
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Matt
I'll be able to write your columns for you. I know everything you're going to say. And. And then they won the World Series in Chicago. We know about the Jed Hoyer Twitter account too. And just to refresh your memory, there was a, like Jed underscore. Hoyer. Jed Hoyer underscore. Whatever it was, it only had one tweet on there from like 2011 or what it was or earlier. And all it said was spanking it. Remember this?
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Natalie
Yeah, it was April of 2009.
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Matt
2009. 2009. It just said spanking it. Nothing on that account. Nothing until the Cubs win the World Series. And then there's one tweet that says I, I'm paraphrasing like who. Anybody got a hand towel?
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Natalie
Correct. Ah, anyone have a hand.
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Matt
Ah, anyone have a hand towel? That's it. And that's it. Okay, so we know that Theo is happy to play the long game because I, there's no doubt in my mind that that is a Theo Epstein production. Now this, this I first thought, please don't be AI. Please don't be photoshopped, Please be real. And it's real Friday night. There is, there is a picture now that's making the rounds. Joe Madden is on the left, Theo Epstein is in the middle and Jason Hayward is on the right. And I, I don't know what to say here. The Joe Madden big smile and his. It's got his logo of the glasses. May your surrealisms come true. Jason Hayward is wearing one World Cup USA 94. And there is former Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein wearing a T shirt in light cubby blue. And on it is a version of the Disney animation of Tweedledee and Tweedledum from Alice in Wonderland. From the Disney production of Alice in Wonderland. And this is the. It's loosely based on the initial illustration from the first printing of through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. And this was Disney updating it in adding the color of the giant red pants pulled up over the twins waist. They're wearing canary yellow blouses and giant white collars with oversized blue bow ties. And rather than each one wearing their respective multicolored beanies or propeller beanies, in this case, they're both wearing Cubs hats. Each one the the Carter Hawkins on the right is holding a number one with his right hand. The Jed Hoyer, the older gray haired one on the left is holding the number one with his left hand. They're both wearing Cubs hats that have L flags flying from the Top and the T shirt says Twinkle D, Twinkle Dumb. Says Twinkle D underneath Carter Hawkins and Twinkle Dumb underneath Jed Hoyer. Theo Epstein made this shirt on like, he got to work on this, turned this around. This isn't like an obvious shirt. This isn't just text on a page. This had to be commissioned, designed, printed for him to make this trip or sent to him while he was here. However this got done, this took a great deal of a forethought. This took effort. This took care. And that's what I love about it. I love the detail. He didn't just go to obvious shirt, say, hey, throw something together. He took the time to do this. And made sure of the picture that was taken, made sure that he is in the middle showing this thing off. And all I can say is this is an absolute. Sometimes you just gotta tip your cap, man. You just have to say, well done, sir. And that is absolutely what this was. So to everybody who, who is in on the joke, who knows the joke, who knows what happened, and everybody. Gee, I wonder who he's talking about. I wonder what this is. That, that. Stop pretending everybody knew. Everybody knows. And it's not a huge deal in the world of any of, of the Cubs baseball or anything else. People will forget about it. And I think that was kind of understood the moment the unfortunate text became an unfortunate. Well, the, the. The text became an unfortunate tweet, and we had our fun with it last week as well. But just that is that. That's how it's done. That. That's how you close it out. That's how you do it as as subtly as possible while also making sure everybody sees it. Perfect. No notes.
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Natalie
Yeah. On Saturday after the, the game, Cody pointed out to us because I didn't catch it. I'm sure you didn't either. When Bruce is on the, the broadcast giving away the Chicago cut certificate to the player of the game, and he interviews them on the field after the game, and he gives it to Nico Horner and he asks Nico if he and his fiance can bring Bruce with him to dinner because he's had a tough week.
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Matt
Can you bring me with you? The. That's funny, but as far as I know, there. The. The discussion of that there has been embargoed completely. That's too bad.
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Natalie
That's right. And, and I wish, I wish he didn't delete the tweet, and I wish they would have just talked about it and owned it. I mean, I'm not surprised they didn't. But.
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Matt
Yeah, the worst part was apologizing to the Cubs.
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Natalie
Yeah. And like in the, in the big picture of things, it. It wasn't that bad. It's embarrassing. It's. More than anything, it's embarrassing.
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Matt
Of course, that, that, that I feel
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Natalie
bad that Bruce felt bad and embarrassed because he's a nice person. But it's like, I just wish they would have taken a different approach to it. Just owned it and had fun with it. I mean, you could, you could have sold score T shirts with Twinkle D and Twinkle Dumb.
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Matt
I know.
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Natalie
And they, they would have sold out.
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Matt
Yes, yes, that there, there could have been a lean in there, but yes, a lean in.
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Natalie
That's a. That's a great way to just lean into.
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Matt
It could have been a lean in. And instead it was. It was a, A fearful and corporate response. But yeah, hey, man.
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Natalie
But good for you, Theo.
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Matt
Good for you.
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Natalie
And I first saw it, dude, like you, I was like, I hope this isn't AI.
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Matt
That's what I said.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm like, oh, be real.
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Natalie
And like trick me. But it was, oh my God, so good.
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Matt
And just the detail, the level of detail to get. To get the caricatures. So obvious.
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Natalie
Yeah. And really funny. It's really funny.
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Matt
The number one. And they're not smiling.
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Natalie
But also too. I mean, I think it. It says lot. We're celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the Cubs winning the world series after 108 years and one of the smartest and best, most successful executives to ever be in the game.
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Matt
In any game.
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Natalie
Right. In any game, for that matter. I mean, what he did for Boston. What he did for Chicago.
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Sponsor Announcer
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Natalie
And here we are celebrating it that. Oh my God, what a special. It's 10 years and he's wearing a twinkle. Dumb and twinkle. Yeah.
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Matt
And he's not above using the moment for. For something this stupid.
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Natalie
Yes.
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Matt
Right.
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Natalie
Something so significant and important and precious in the history of the Cubs.
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Matt
Yes.
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Natalie
And he's like, fuck all that I'm wearing. And I'm getting. First of all, I'm getting a T shirt made.
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Matt
That's the best part. The best part is the effort that went into would be. It's super easy to call Joe over at obvious Shirts and hey, throw something together for me.
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Sponsor Announcer
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Matt
Like I'm picturing Theo like up late at a design board like Project Runway. He's got Tim Gunn coming in there. I'm not so sure I understand where we're going with the whole collection here, Theo.
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Natalie
It's just. But it also. Oh, really? So we're doing.
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Matt
We're Doing more, draping more. Okay, well, that, That's a decision.
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Natalie
And knowing. Knowing the relationship that he and Jed have had for years and decades. It also shows him insight into how Jed responded to it. You know, I mean, it really does. It's not. It's not a far connection to make
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Matt
no laugh at it. Of course they can, these guys. The thing you have to see Theo also through simultaneously the lens of obviously a next level brilliant executive and also just a complete frat boy. Yes. Like this is, this is the, the right, the right way to handle this. If you kind. If there's still that part of your brain that never left college. And this is.
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Natalie
It's.
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Matt
It's just perfect.
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Natalie
Well, I think everyone has that. They just. I think he. He taps into it still as one should.
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Dan Bernstein
It's a.
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Matt
It's a baseball team.
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Natalie
Yep.
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Matt
Get a bunch of guys in tight pants throwing a ball around together. What the hell, man? And, and to. And the shirts, well tailored. It is. It fits him perfectly. I just. I wish. I'm sure there are more. There's no way he only had one printed.
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Natalie
Oh, I'm sure he sent one to Carter and Jed. Yes. He had to have.
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Matt
Yeah. And I'm sure that, that if. If he were to send it to Jed's kids and Carter's kids, they'd like it too. Like, I know because, Because I've been there. They had shirts. I remember when Dave Portnoy was wearing the shirt that said Bernstein on it. There was like a picture of me. He was at some big pizza event. That was when that whole thing was going crazy. So I. My. My kid had a. The picture of me. There's a Bernstein shirt. And then so did a bunch of teammates on the Tulane club baseball team. Like, he had a bunch of them and got a bunch of them, so.
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Natalie
Oh, did he really?
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Matt
Oh, yeah, of course he did. Are you kidding? They loved it.
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Dan Bernstein
They.
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Matt
They thought it was the funniest thing of all time.
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Natalie
Yeah. It also, I mean, I just. I love what it shows in the dichotomy of the billion dollar game, the billion dollar kids game that they all play, participate in, that is their livelihood and how they take care of their families and make millions and get fired and lose jobs and hire other jobs, their lives. Yet they're not above making fun of what happens within the game. And I know this is just a reporter who made a mistake, but it's like, it's a light moment. It shouldn't be so heavy and dark. Again, embarrassing for Bruce. And I feel Bad for Bruce because he was embarrassed by it. And anybody would be in his shoes because, again, he's a nice guy. And it's just. But it's a funny moment, though, too. And here's the guy that broke the curse 108 years for the Cubs, shows up on Celebration Day in a homemade T shirt of Twinkle D and Twinkle Dumb because he.
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Matt
Because he knew. He knew, like, by bro code, that's the right thing to do.
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Natalie
It's so good.
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Matt
Like, it's just. You're holding to it. We said it. We said it. If somebody, like, we wanted Jed and Carter to show up the next day, right, Twinkle D and Twinkle Dumb T shirts, like, that would have been the proper response. This is even a little colder. This is. This is for him to do it. He's flying into town to celebrate something that. This is historic and special because, you
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Natalie
know, he didn't tell Jed. And I bet he shows up, he sees Jed. They, you know, they. Yeah. Embrace and like, hey, what's going on? He unzips his jacket and takes it off, and he's wearing the T shirt.
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Matt
I would love to know when Jed first saw it like that. That was my other thought.
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Natalie
Yes, that would be amazing.
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Matt
But just to him, just him taking the time to know exactly how he wanted it. So, you know, Cubs hats.
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Dan Bernstein
Can you.
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Matt
Do, you know, the flat. Can you put a little L flag on there? Just him talking to somebody, designing it like he knew. He just. It's. It's. It. It was. It was note perfect. So absolutely outstanding. And the baseball, pretty good, too. Same goes for the White Sox. Boy, they just. They are at that fun point where they got enough young guys who just don't know that they're not supposed to be doing what they're doing this quick and don't wake them up.
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Dan Bernstein
Don't let them know.
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Natalie
Let.
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Matt
Let that thing ride. They got a lot of tough outs. They got a lot of guys who not getting cheated on some of these swings. And the. The blue. The Blue Jays are in a position. Kick them while they're down. And they thought, well, this is. We're going to come out of the break and we're going to show the World Series team that we can be okay. All right. Have fun with that. Okay? You got.
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Natalie
You got.
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Matt
You know, you won one little pitcher's duel in there, and otherwise you got your ass kicked. So fun times right now. And. And I am going to be headed to. I'll be at a White Sox game Friday. I'm going to be going to The Cubs when the Dodgers are in town. Like, I'm. I'm. I'm making plans to get out there as a fan, damn it. I'm going to take off my shirt and paint my face or take off my face and paint my shirt. I haven't decided which one I'm going to do, but I'm definitely going to do something because if you can't, you know, enjoy baseball in this town right now, you can't really enjoy much anything. So I would do that. I also thought that the Cubs did a really good job taking care of. Of the balance, of the balance between the significance and the joy and the understanding that it's been 10 years and to know that, that that's a lot of time. It was a long time ago and it does raise the stakes. It did raise the stakes. It makes this, the competitive window for this team matter a little bit more. And people really understood that. But, boy, I thought that Boogie did an outstanding job putting the celebration of this team and their World Series title in context when Boo said that we can't lose sight of how significant it was. And it's one of the most significant sports championships of all time because of the Cubs history and their status and their status as the butt of jokes for so long. And then they embraced being the butt of jokes, and then it was time to exit that entire branding idea. And then they were. It went from being something you should be proud of to something that was embarrassing. And as it was. As it remained lovable, and they figured they would undergo that heavy lift. And they did it and they won. And, yeah, the world changed irreparably weeks later. And I do think that that was, if people really want to talk about culturally, why the celebration kind of felt short was because of so much chaos that's been unleashed on the world unnecessarily in the last 10 years. And it was. It was a reminder of just what this meant and what it will continue to mean. It wasn't just a team winning a World Series, and I know that makes some people mad, but it's true. Why don't the Sox get the same treatment? Because it doesn't matter as much. They're not as big. They're not as big nationally or internationally. They weren't an entire cultural story and a cultural touchstone as the Cubs were. And that's why this was just a bigger deal. It was good to see Joe Madden there and happy, seemingly like he has kept a. The bitterness on a low simmer for most of the weekend. And Obviously great reviews for so many people involved Miguel Montero and all that. So it was nicely handled by the Cubs. I do think some of the. And Paul Sullivan pointed this out in the Tribune that some of the stuff that was said as at the actual dedication was a little strange when they got some of the biographical details wrong. I don't know if you were paying attention to any of that regarding the. They. They referred to. There's a question of David Ross being asked about as a coach, and he's like, no, it was a. I was a manager.
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Natalie
Oops.
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Matt
Oh, you didn't hear. You didn't hear sounds.
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Natalie
No, I didn't hear that. No.
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Matt
Well, Matt Caesar was introduced as a pitcher at the ceremony.
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Natalie
Really? Yeah.
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Matt
And even Matt Caesar was not a pitcher. How was an outfielder Miguel Montero. This. This is what Sully wrote.
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Dan Bernstein
He's.
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Matt
Miguel Montero referred to as someone who tossed great batting practices, not as the catcher who hit the grand Islam in Game 1 of the NLCS or who drove in the eventual winning run in the 10th inning of Game 7 of the World Series. And Kyle Hendricks, when throwing out the first pitch, was introduced as someone who started game three and appeared in the decisive game seven. He didn't just appear. He. He started.
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Natalie
Yes, the game started and would have. Would have. Would have gotten the win except for a bad call. Yeah.
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Matt
And he said some simple Googling would have helped the Cubs out considering a play, condensing a player's contributions to the championship season into a few words. So, yeah, that. That was the little hiccup. But on. On a terrific weekend, I thought was nice for everybody involved. If you need windows, you know from where to get them. Just call Russ Armstrong. I know you're. You're beaten over the head with window ads, and it's just constant drumbeat of when this window, this window, that window, and all these jingles. What cuts through the noise is working with the owner of the company who can custom make the windows for you at the factory that he owns directly to order. It's much simpler to work with Russ Armstrong in Chicago Window guys. And it's less expensive because he cuts out all the garbage, all the stuff you don't need. These fake deals about buying one and getting one free, and then they just jack the price up somewhere else to make up for that. When. If you get a price you like, run it by Russ because he'll match it and he'll explain to you what all the gimmicks are. He'll give you the best product and the best price guaranteed. 847-302-9171 Go ahead and get quotes elsewhere, but ask those reps who's installing the windows and they won't be able to tell you. Russ will be able to tell you who's installing the windows by name because it's his crew. It's worked with him for years and he doesn't use subcontracted labor. They don't just go and pick people up for that day. He's got his crew. So it's his factory, it's his crew. And that's all reflected in you getting the best windows with the best installation, the best price and the best experience. 847-302-9171 and check out his five star reviews@chicagowindowguys.com don't let managing your money be scary.
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
The World cup is, has come and gone and I thought yesterday's game wasted. It was a complete waste of time.
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Natalie
My God, was it brutal.
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Matt
It was so boring. The last World cup final was really good if I remember correctly. Yeah, I think I remember. I think I remember coming in and saying it's one of the best sports sports events I, I remember watching, I
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Natalie
remember sitting on the edge of the edge of the couch watching that entire game and this yesterday, that was just awful. Here's a, here's a tip. Get some shots on goal or here's
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Matt
an, here's this is a crazy idea.
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Dan Bernstein
Go that way
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Natalie
towards the opposers. The opposing nets.
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Matt
Yes. Like what are we going to Do? Well, we're going to spend all day kicking it backwards. How's that going to go for you? Well, we think, great, that's, that's our plan. We're going to go this way and then we'll stop and then we'll go backwards. Stop going backwards. Go that way. So I was yelling the whole time, go that way. And they didn't, they didn't really shoot it. It's hard to, it's hard to score without shots, right? Maybe, maybe it's just advanced, like four dimensional soccer chess that I'm not playing right here. But I thought, to quote Chelsea Ross's character from Hoosiers, you can't score if you don't shoot. Shoot the ball. You can't score if you don't shoot. Just shoot it. Shoot. I guess they didn't want to and that's fine. But I don't know soccer. I don't really. I do kind of sometimes pretend to because it's fun and I did play for a lot of years. But hey, that was not your advertisement to say, hey, come love this sport. And most Americans were there for you. But let me also point something out here. This is what's most important. You're going to read a lot of things in the aftermath of the World cup that are badly written and badly reported and primarily anecdotal about, oh, the World cup is gone, but what a success and what a great time. Even though, you know all this, the Scotsmen have left Boston and other people have left. But, but boy, it just, it was so great to have the World cup here. Be very, very careful and vet those articles very carefully. And anybody you see any, not just articles, I don't know if you're following whatever influencers that you follow on Instagram or TikTok saying those things, just be really skeptical and go over the data that's being used to support any of that and keep asking that question, based on what?
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Dan Bernstein
Where's your data?
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Matt
If you're just saying, I liked it, I had fun, that's different. But anybody claiming that these World cup events in whatever city were somehow good for the economy, good for business, make sure that you scrutinize those reports as finely and carefully as you possibly can. And that's because I go back to former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his decision to tell FIFA, keep Chicago out of your plans. And I remember at the time, what did we say? Great call. And why is it a great call? Because like all of these things, like the Olympics, when I didn't want Chicago to get the Olympics and they were the first bid out and I celebrated that fact. And I also didn't want World cup games here. It's not that I don't like watching World cup games is that they're a loser economically. They're terrible for your city because FIFA comes in and takes everything for free and sucks all the money out and the city pays for everything because that's the way FIFA operates. And you think, okay, well, but is it. It's still, it seems like it's fun and you get all these tourists here. The actual economics of that are much, much more complicated, much more so. And the the the best reporting that I've seen so far was of the work that was done by Pantheon Macroeconomics. And Pantheon is a big company that is relied on for economic data that produces independent economic data. This was written on July 14th
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Dan Bernstein
the
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Matt
FIFA World cup has provided little meaningful boost to the US Economy, with high frequency data suggesting the tournament related spending has largely displaced other consumer activity rather than generating new demand, according to Pantheon Macroeconomics. In a research note, Pantheon economists Samuel Toombs and Oliver Allen said real time indicators point to the tournament being, quote, something of a macro non event, unquote. Bloomberg second measure card spending data show no meaningful increase in overall consumer spending since the World cup began in mid June, while spending on categories most closely tied to the event, including food services and accommodation, remained below year ago levels for much of the tournament. Other indicators, including TSA passenger volumes, hotel occupancy and home base employment data, similarly show little evidence of a broad based economic lift. Pantheon expects ticket sales for World cup matches to temporarily boost spending on spectator sports in the month of June, adding an estimated 0.05 to 0.1 percentage points to headline personal consumption expenditures.
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Dan Bernstein
However,
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Matt
spectator sports account for only 0.2% of total consumer spending, meaning any overall impact on GDP is expected to be microscopic. Any increase in services exports from foreign visitors is also likely to be offset by payments flowing to FIFA and other overseas organizations involved in staging the tournament. So there it is. There's the sentence. Any increase if there is an increase, which there kind of isn't. If there is an increase in services exports from foreign visitors, it's offset by payments flowing to FIFA. The economists also said the tournament is unlikely to materially affect inflation. While hotel room rates rose in some host cities, Pantheon expects the increase to be partly offset by lower airline fares, leaving the broader core inflation picture largely unchanged. The firm says that the sheer size of the US Economy combined with the crowding out of other leisure spending has prevented the World cup from providing a meaningful macroeconomic boost. These things are boondoggles. FIFA knows their boondoggles. For FIFA, it's not for FIFA. It's a massive money maker because they come in and they take advantage of city governments, state governments, national governments, and they leave with the bag. They leave with the bag. That's why you had Giovanni Infantino out there doing his little dance and celebrating, trying to get, trying to get the other guy off the stage. Oh my God. Was that a thing like, okay, you're done now. I've never seen anything quite like that in my life.
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Natalie
That was awesome.
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Matt
That's just special, man. That, that's, that is just special. But I, I know why, why FIFA's dancing. I know why they're happy because they're, they're just rich. Like you talk about the plutocrats that are lighting their cigars with burning hundred dollar bills. That's what you're talking about here. And kudos to Rahm Emanuel for making that easy call when he was the steward of the city's finances and welfare and wherewithal all the time. He's like, no, no, no, we're not, we're not going to pay all the police overtime and do all the infrastructure and everything we need to do traffic and etc. Police escorts of every bus and shutting down all these lanes. The same be like, why don't they have games here? You're the same people that would have been screaming about the fact that snow fighting vehicles are preventing you from getting on Lakeshore Drive because the FIFA bigwigs wanted an escort for their own motorcade. So this, this ended up just fine. Ended up just fine. It was, if you had fun, great. And if this is the, the next big boost for whatever soccer wants to be. And there wasn't a whole lot of please love my sport going on yesterday because that's. Maybe everybody involved knew that you're just not. You can't sell the game off a game like that because nobody wants to sit for two and a half hours and watch. Watch whatever that was. Nobody does. And I didn't get a lot of that on Telemundo. You know, you don't, you didn't get a lot of this, the over the top selling of the game, which is why that, that me, the takeaway from, from my end was just, was going to be how much I enjoyed Andre's contour and how much just how the. Their presentation of everything was. Was just a lot more fun. And I Loved it. And I like. And then I started getting into the commercials and just seeing how they would take the same product but sell it a little differently to their audience. And that was exposure. I looked at this as sort of a, I don't know, a cultural immersion kind of thing to try new things and do new things. And if that's what the lesson of the World cup was for me, cool. Very happy with it.
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Dan Bernstein
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Matt
I. I've never heard of the guy that won the British Open.
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Natalie
Congratulations, by the way.
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Dan Bernstein
Thank you.
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Matt
Oh, you mean to him?
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Natalie
To him? Yep.
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Matt
Who is he? Had you heard of him? Be honest.
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Natalie
No, I never have. I haven't.
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Matt
You know, I'm, I like golf a
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Dan Bernstein
lot
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Matt
and I, you know that I usually rely on my dad because he watches everything with golf. He watches, you know, the Korn Ferry tour, he watches the lpga, he watches the seniors, and he knows the colleges. And when he said, I've never heard of this guy, I thought, okay, well then I don't know, then I don't feel bad. But ryan Fox, a 39 year old from New Zealand, just won the tournament. And it's weird because it's on early and then you forget it's on. And the time you get off the bike in the morning, you're like, okay, let's start the day. Oh, wait, oh, what happened in the Open? And then I didn't watch much, but I did see that the other guy from New Zealand, that guy Herbert, he was the guy that hit the save shot on 18 on Saturday. Did you see that?
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Natalie
I did not.
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Matt
Oh, I never seen a shot like that in my life. So he hits it, his second shot on a par 5. Sprays it out into the, into the fescue or the gorse or whatever it is. And they expect him to take an unplayable. He doesn't take an unplayable. Instead, he takes the club length relief. He's got a blind shot. And the broadcasters are saying, well, he's just got to hit it into this little landing area here to give himself a chance. At par, he puts on the green a blind shot. His caddy had to walk to the top of a hill and point to where he was aiming because he couldn't see anything.
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Natalie
That's pretty cool.
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Matt
All they had to do was, here's the distance. If you get clean contact, this is the distance where you want the ball to go. Just get the aim right. And it was up in the air for so long, they didn't know where it was. And so the broadcasters couldn't see it. They had. They were watching the same TV shot we were watching. And the ball's hit. He goes running up the hill to see where the ball goes. And we're all standing there waiting. And it cuts to the camera with a shot of the green. Out of nowhere, you see the ball hit right next to the hole and roll to about 20ft. And the broadcasters are all going, oh, my God. Like, wait, whoa. What.
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Dan Bernstein
What is that? Like, is that his?
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Matt
Boy, it was spectacular.
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Natalie
Yeah. Ryan Fox. So he wins the. The Open Championship yesterday. He. His best finishes in the Masters was tied for 26. And that was three years ago. PGA Championship, tied for 23rd three years ago. Last year he was tied for 19th in the US Open. He has 20 professional wins, three on the PGA Tour, five on the European Tour, one in the Asian Tour. PT. PGA Tour of Australia has three Challenge Tour. He has two wins and then nine other wins. His father is Grant Fox, apparently a well known rugby player from the All Black.
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Matt
It's not de' Aaron Fox.
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Natalie
It is not de' Aaron Fox. I. I don't know here on Wikipedia if they're related or not.
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Matt
Okay.
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Natalie
But I'm going to say that they're probably not related.
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Matt
Just making sure. Okay.
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Natalie
Yeah, that's the Open Championship. After never having a top 10 finish in any other major. Man.
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Matt
Between Aaron Rye and Ryan Fox. Now, I like it. I like to get a. Because we keep expecting the same people to win majors. Always good to get those little one offs and let them have Their trophies have their moments. So congratulations to another person. We have to kind of figure out who he is. But awesome was not my favorite moment, though. Not my favorite moment of the entire British Open weekend. Mine had to do with Rory McElroy saying what he said about Bryson DeChambeau. Because Saturday Bryson DeChambeau was penalized two strokes. He was on the fifth hole at Royal Burkdale and he was in the tall fescue and he did something you can't do. He stood behind his ball and he pushed down the grass behind his ball. That is a immediate and clear violation of the rules. Can't do it because that affects your backswing. It improves your stroke is what it does. And that is an, it's an obvious call, it's an easy call. And it's not really. People are calling it a rules controversy. It may be a behavioral controversy. It is not a rules controversy. You can't do what he did. Yeah.
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Natalie
Because aren't the rules very clear that you can't improve your lie?
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Matt
You cannot do what he did. Every. Even recreational golfers know it.
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Matt
You just can't. And even if it's accidental, it so happened that he improved his, his lie, improved his backswing, improved his opportunity by
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Dan Bernstein
stepping on the grass.
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Matt
And if it's an accident, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You can debate there's some controversy. If you want to debate whether or not he did it on purpose, say well. And just say, well, they only saw it because he's on television, because he's famous and he's under more scrutiny. That's not the point. The point is you're supposed to report that if you do it accidentally, if you're not on tv, you're supposed to do that if you're playing in a muni course.
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Natalie
Yeah. It's rule 8.1. You cannot improve your lie, stance, swing area or line of play. Breaching this even accidentally results in a two stroke penalty.
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Matt
Yes. It's very, very simple.
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Natalie
Yeah.
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Matt
This is clear cut. And then what the controversy is, is DeChambeau threw a fit, he got all angry and he's like, well, I may just quit. Okay. All right. Because that's what happened. And this goes back the, the enmity between McElroy and DeChambeau. It goes back. McElroy has never liked DeChambeau and he didn't pull any punches. When was asked about, he said it was pretty obvious why he was penalized. And then he said, yeah, look, I won't pretend to be up here and defend Bryson, I'm not particularly fond of him. I think a lot of it's performative. I think a lot of it's for attention. To hold the tournament hostage like that and have all of us players, volunteers, everyone waiting on him to depart. I didn't feel like it was a great look because what happened was when dechambell's like, I may just quit if you're going to treat me like this. I'm. I don't know if I'm going to finish. So they had to wait for him to decide if he was going to keep playing in a major tournament. After being assessed an appropriate two stroke penalty, he throws this fit. And everybody had to wait until late at night because he hit balls on the range until 10:30pm local time. His agent said he's undecided if he's going to continue playing. He'll announce his decision Saturday morning. But then everybody had to wait up because they couldn't do the tee times. They didn't know when they were playing because of him, because he was being a child.
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Natalie
Right. To get mad because they hold you to the standard of the rules. It's pretty ridiculous.
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Matt
It's completely ridiculous. And it, and it changed everybody's day. Yeah, you don't do that. You just, you just don't do that. And I've, I've tried with DeChambeau. I've tried. He's done some YouTube stuff where he's. He's not as big of a penis. And it's been a little more endearing when he. On some of his YouTube stuff where he's been kind of, you know, trying to be normal, but something like this. Nah, nah, I'm, I'm with Rory. You don't do it. You don't do it. You, you take the rip, you say, yeah, I shouldn't have done that. And whether or not you want to call him a cheater and put him in the same category as like a Patrick Reed, who everybody. There's been multiple allegations against him. We've seen him, you know, fluffing a lie or grounding his club or, you know, being on, on the edges of the rules all the time. Everybody hates Patrick Reed because they know that. I don't know if everybody hates DeChambeau in quite the same way, but this doesn't help. And way to go, Rory. I'm, you know, stick to your guns. Say what you gotta say. This July, it's time to ride Smoke. Repeat right away at any qualifying new Harley Davidson motorcycle from Woodstock. Harley Davidson. And you'll take home a free Traeger smoker, a new bike for the open road, a new smoker for the backyard. That is one incredible summer. But don't wait. This offer is only available through July 31st and it's while supplies. Last stop by Woodstock Harley Davidson today before this deal goes up in smoke. Offer valid through July 31, 2026. One Traeger smoker with qualifying new motorcycle purchase. No substitutions or cash value. See dealer for complete details or online@w woodstockhd.com there's another wonderful thing said that I thought was really refreshing. There's an NBA trade yesterday that definitely raised my eyebrows when I saw it's a three way deal. Oklahoma City the Thunder are sending Lou Dort to the Atlanta Hawks. So the Thunder get three second round picks from Atlanta, Atlanta gets Dort and guard Ryan Nemhard from Dallas and Dallas gets Zachary Risa Shay from Atlanta. Now that's pretty good. And Sam Presti, who's like basketball Theo Epstein, the guy who just, he seems to be just executive executive circles around others and he said he was, he was asked at your season ending press conference. You said the second apron wouldn't prevent you from keeping this version of the Thunder together, but if we saw changes it would be finances that would force a transaction. Is that still the case? And Sam Presti said, yes, that's accurate. We were comfortable being over the second apron with this team and how we were uniquely constructed. We've been consistent with that view for a few years now. This was a financial decision. The impression I've been given is that the savings generated this summer and from being out of the tax the last several years will be allocated to future teams along with other new, well documented revenue streams. This will allow us to make more basketball related decisions over the next several years. We have a team that's capable of contention and as I understand it, the decisions this summer have positioned us financially to maintain a team of this caliber. He didn't make anything up. He didn't make there. There were no claims here of something other than a financial decision. How cool is that? This was a financial decision. The debate to be had is about the second apron and some unintended consequences and what collective bargaining can do and how careful you have to be in collective bargaining. I think the player's probably unhappy with some of the second apron stuff, but for an executive to say yeah, this was a financial decision, that's what we did. The Bulls have had to deal with this when it came to not wanting some second round picks this year because didn't want any of the people that were available. And it's just hard to say that that might be hard to say when you do have undrafted free agents coming in and when other people are like, why, how dare you sell off a second round pick when you're bad? And they said, well, we didn't want any of the players we could have taken with those picks. Nobody wants to hear that. But it does happen and it's true. I just thought it was great that Sam Presti actually said what he said. And when you're in the position that he's in, you can say those things. Also, the Atlanta Hawks were already a bitch to play and that is a team that will be able to do bad things to you now. They already had arguably the best wing defender in the entire NBA and Dyson Daniels. And now you get a dedicated defender in Lou Dort who's more than on the edge of dirty with some of his toughness. He's probably right there if you, if you were taking votes on who's the dirtiest player in the NBA. The stuff he does with his knees, the stuff he does to tangle up feet, a lot of things like that. Lou Dort is, is a really good defender, but not well liked for how much he plays on the edge of what is ethical. But if, you know, Atlanta's got a lot of things going their way right now. They've got a real good coach who understands how to turn some defense into offense. So that, that's, it's a hell of a move on their part if they can get the scoring that they need. Atlanta is, they're, they're well ahead of the Bulls when it comes to putting things back together and being a material player in NBA stuff right now. So you, Maddie, were among those who took three hours of your life or more when you consider driving out there and all that. And you went to the, Was it the 50 millimeter IMAX? Was it like the big, like the real.
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Natalie
Oh, no, no. So no, we went to, we didn't go to the 70 millimeter because that's out in Woodridge. And we, we had to drive the South Barrington amc.
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Matt
Okay.
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Natalie
Saw it in an IMAX theater there because there was no good show times or seats near us. So we went a little further out and yeah. And did see the Odyssey was a seven o' clock show on, on Saturday night.
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Dan Bernstein
And
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Natalie
okay, so here's, here's what I'll say about it. If you, if you, if you go and see this and don't Enjoy your time in seeing this film in the theater, then you just don't like going to see movies. Okay. I mean, it's a. It's a really entertaining movie. It went by a lot faster than the length of time that it, that it plays for. There were. There were several scenes, Dan, where I, like, I found myself holding my breath and not realizing I was. Because there were some intense scenes. Okay. And. And I know what your cousin called it. Corny ass. I get it. But you have to go into this movie realizing that they play into the mythology and the storytelling and stuff that's not real. Like, you have to go into that understanding that's part of the film. And the way they portray it, though, it's. Christopher Nolan did a really good job in telling the story, and you develop characters and you get to know some of the main characters on a personal level. And I think that the story flows really well and he tells it really well. And the scenery is beautiful and the
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Matt
shots and the people are beautiful.
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Natalie
Oh, yeah, it's. It's a. It's a. It's a very pretty cast of people. No, so I, I really enjoyed it. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I know it. It ready. It. It made money back already on opening weekend. I think it, like nearly $260 million, and I think it was 250 to make. So I. Again, if you, if you go and don't enjoy yourself, then you just don't enjoy going to movies. That is something I'm very, very happy that I saw in the theater and even driving home. Natalie and I were talking about it, and I said to her, I go, yeah, I really, I really enjoyed it. I'm really glad we saw it. And it was very entertaining. Several scenes really kept me. Again, I was, was. I was holding my breath. Didn't realize until after it was over. It was so intense. And I said to her, but I'll probably never ever see it again.
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Matt
But you're glad you did.
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Natalie
But I'm very glad I did, yes.
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Matt
And it was worth the money, worth the trip, worth the time.
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Natalie
Worth the time. It was. It was an excellent movie experience. And that. That's. That's what I look for in going to see a movie. I want to be taken to the story they're telling and feel like I'm there and not realize that I'm at a movie and I want the time to go by. And I was very entertained, and I'm really glad I saw it. But again, I'll never see it again. Like, that's not something I'm going to watch on my TV screen at home.
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Matt
Well, there's a, there is a little bit of concern that the non IMAX versions take out too much of the movie.
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Natalie
Really? That.
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Matt
Yes, that you're only seeing like the middle snapshot of the screen. And I was talking to Beth about this. She was telling me that apparently Ryan Coogler, when he filmed Sinners, was keenly aware of formatting and he was either filming with multiple cameras or had a feed going into it was being simultaneously processed four different screens. So there could be an IMAX version, a regular version. Because if you. When I saw it, it was letterboxed until a format change when the vampires enter the juke joint and then it goes to full screen.
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Natalie
Okay. Yeah. So the, the thing with, with the, with, with the Odyssey, so 70 millimeter IMAX. There's that one theater we've mentioned already in Woodridge. I, I've seen comparisons online of seeing it in 70 millimeter and then seeing it in regular IMAX. And least, at least from the. These are still photos that I saw.
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Matt
You.
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Natalie
You didn't lose. Yes, you lost a portion of the shot and the screen, but it didn't take away from the movie or the experience in itself.
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Matt
But in, but in non imax, like people's heads are cut off. There are. It's the, the, the non imax.
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Natalie
Oh, that I didn't know. Okay, so. Well, that's a problem. And I mean. Yeah. And you're only, you're only limited to so many IMAX seats in a. Correct. The AMC Bias only has the one IMAX theater.
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Matt
Yeah. I'm hearing that people are coming out of the regular version and they're seeing a pale, watered down iteration.
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Natalie
Okay, that's too bad. Yeah. Because that's. I mean, that would be annoying of any film to see. Well, see it cut off.
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Matt
Yeah. Well, let me ask this. How bouncy is the camera and how much movement? Because my worry of seeing this in IMAX and I have this problem with IMAX in general, is my motion sickness.
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Natalie
Yeah.
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Matt
If there's a lot of up and down or bouncing camera, like, like the first act of Saving Private Ryan, I had to cover my eyes because I was.
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Natalie
Oh, seriously? Oh, yeah. Okay. Because I can recall that. That opening scene really well. So that's, so that doesn't impact or affect me at all. And I'm sure that during some of the, the ocean scenes where they're. Where they're on their bro. That that might get to you. But so my My wife experiences the same thing, and she has to use Dramamine a lot, and this didn't impact her or affect her at all. Okay.
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Matt
I'm just. I'm very sensitive, and I mean, obviously, everyone.
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Natalie
Everyone's different, but. Yeah, she is. She's sensitive to that, to the emotion, and it didn't. It didn't bother her at all. Okay. So. So again, I mean, I. And I. And I've said this, and I don't mean it in a. In a derogatory fashion. It's just that we. We consume films, you and I, differently, you know, and I. And I admire the way that you. You see things and appreciate things from a movie standpoint. I. I think you'll really enjoy this. You know, I just. I. I don't. I don't want what your cousin said. Some corny ass. And I would love to hear a little further detail of what he thought was some corny ass.
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Matt
Yeah.
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Natalie
Because there. There was some corny. I don't want to say anything here specifically if you haven't seen the film yet, but I understand maybe where he's coming from. Would love to hear a little more detail on his thoughts on it, but I. I want to be entertained, and I want to feel like I spent my money and was worth my time, and I feel that way. 100.
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Matt
I also want to say kudos to TNT for putting the movie oh, brother, where Art thou? On a couple of nights ago.
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Natalie
Oh, did they really?
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Matt
Because that is also the story of the Odyssey. Yeah, it's the same story. I. I know that that movie could be a real acquired taste.
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Dan Bernstein
It's not for everybody.
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Natalie
I really like it.
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Matt
Oh, I love it.
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Natalie
Yeah.
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Matt
I absolutely love that movie. And you talk about a bunch of stars in that and a bunch of your favorites, and people work with the Coen brothers before, but, I mean, everybody in that movie is. Is. Is cast perfectly. I. I think it's hilarious. I love that movie. And for. For. But for TNT to realize, hey, while everybody's getting all excited about this story of. This poem of the Odyssey, why don't we show you our version here.
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Natalie
Yes.
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Matt
That we happen to have the rights to. And it was the. The Coen brothers and George Clooney and John Turturro and John Goodman and Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Batalucco, Holly Hunter, Ray McKinnon. Like, everybody in it is so good. Did I mention Stephen Root, who steals every scene of every movie he's ever been in?
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Natalie
So we just. We just watched a series on Apple called Widow's Bay. And Steven Root plays a character and he's. He's really good.
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Matt
He's really good. Amazing. And he also. I don't know his choice of scripts.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't.
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Matt
His batting average is. I mean, it's never going to be John Cazale, but like his. And then, you know, Dodgeball was out over the weekend too. He's fantastic in Dodgeball.
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Natalie
He's great.
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Matt
I mean, and, and get out every time he's there. He's so compelling.
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Natalie
And that, that Widow's Bay on Apple, I, I really recommend it. We really enjoyed it. And Matthew Reese is the main, the main character in it and he's been nominated for an Emmy for male lead actor in that as well as the Beast in Me, which I think was a Netflix. So simultaneously to receive lead actor nominations for two different series. Yeah. So it was really cool. But. But back to the Odyssey. Really enjoyed it.
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Matt
Okay.
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Natalie
Recommend it very highly. Obviously, with, with what you've said about non imax seeing an imax, if you're able to do that again. We drove a little bit further than we'd want to to go see the movie when there's theaters right near us. But we, again, we wanted to get, you know, better seats and the IMAX theater. So we were at the AMC in South Barrington. It's the, it's the biggest movie theater. I think I did 24 screens. That's huge. And this IMAX theater was huge.
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Matt
That is that Barrington Road. I'm trying to remember, like, exactly what. It's near the exit. Right. Isn't it near 90?
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Natalie
I think so, yeah. I don't.
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Matt
Yeah, I think if you get off, get off a 90 going. Right, right, right.
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Natalie
You're. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't, we don't get to go on highways to go that area. But it was, but it wasn't. It was like the regular movie theater seats, which I haven't been in a regular movie theater seat in years.
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Matt
Oh, you want your recliner and your glass of wine. Yep.
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Natalie
So it was like, I was like, oh, these are uncomfortable this is going on here. But no, I would really recommend it. And again, I think, I think I know the aspects of the film that maybe your cousin was talking about. I could kind of see where he would see it's kind of corny ass. But it's still very enjoyable. And I really. And I, I hope you see it because I know you like, you like films and I hope, I hope you do see it in the theater.
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Matt
I, I'd like to. I'm gonna have to make a plan like this. This. You have to really kind of.
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Natalie
Oh, no, dude. We were like, we were. Okay. How long?
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Matt
It's like going to play golf, right?
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Natalie
Like, when do we have to leave? All right. The dogs. How long will the dogs be alone for? Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
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Natalie
You definitely had to figure all that out.
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Matt
It's a commitment. But if you say it's worth it, we'll do it. That is Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered for this Monday. And we have been brought to you today by Harley Davidson Woodstock. You should go check them out@woodstockhd.com and by Chicago Window. Guys. Call Russ Armstrong. He wants to talk to you about windows. And you can talk to him about windows and curling. 847-302-9171. And check out his five star reviews at chicagowindowguys.com Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered.
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Dan Bernstein
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