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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered
Why did Drew Dalman walk away after 5 seasons and 2 years left on his contract?
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Dan Bernstein
Dan Bernstein, unfiltered unfiltered on 312.
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Brad Biggs
Sports it's DBU on 3. 1, 2. Dan Bernstein, unfiltered. With a lot going on during a period where there usually isn't all that much going on, we are brought to you in partnership with my bookie. The Drew Dahlman retirement yesterday threw everybody for a loop trying to figure out what's next. And I can't say enough that until we hear from Drew Dahlman, it makes a lot of this sort of petty and awkward because we need to hear exactly why. I think it's really, really important before we move on and make this all about football and all. What are the Bears going to do now? Where are they going to spend their money and what are they going to do on the trademark and what are they going to do in the draft? Let's, let's just make sure everything's okay first and that indeed this is just him deciding he doesn't want to play football anymore and, and that he isn't being forced to do this for any reason, that it's just completely his choice that he has frankly, the luxury of being able to walk away from this career and this money and do something else with his life. There are conflicting reports as to whether or not this had or has been a possibility that there was. I have seen certain reporting tinged with the idea that, you know, maybe this is something that had come up or might have been halfway expected because there and I, it's indeterminate right now. I can't tell what the Bears knew and what they should be expected or have been expected to have known going into it when they signed the deal. I mean, obviously you have assurances when you sign somebody to this three year deal and make the commitments that you make that that person's going to play for you. But people are allowed to change their minds and that's okay and you move on. What is interesting and presuming for the purposes of this discussion, presuming that he is okay and this is just like, you know, he lost the passion for it and this is not a sport you can play if you, if you're not passionate about it. I mean, really, any professional sport, when it's your job, you'd think about it. But this is one where there the dangers inherent in it are different than other sports. So I get it. And we'll wait to hear what he. And maybe he won't say anything. He doesn't have to. He doesn't owe us anything. But boy, we always like to say you don't ever watch someone general manager. When people get excited about an executive hiring, you're getting excited. You. It's ultimately you see that in the results. Hell, you talk about what you saw at United center last night when you. Nobody watches Sam Presti general manage except over, over years based on trophies and parades and success and the players going on to great things that you end up drafting. But polls has got work to do right now. And to the extent that Ben Johnson is the most powerful person on the football side of the organization, which I think he is, I think anything I'm saying now about Ryan Polls, it should be presumed that Ben Johnson and his role and the whatever space he takes up in the general managerial efforts. Same goes for Matt Feinstein right now. We hear his name a lot because of what's happening with the captain now we gotta see it happen. Now you gotta tap dance a little bit. This is like when you've got a household budget and you're doing okay, you got a really nice house and everything is, is, is fairly solid, but you don't have a ton of disposable money slush fund lying around to play with, but things are okay. And then your furnace breaks and the people come out and they look at it and they say, yeah, you're looking at, you're looking at, you know, 13, 14 grand here to replace this thing. Soup to nuts, all done. And all of a sudden your budget is not your budget anymore and you have more immediate needs that need attending to. And bears are a little pinch here. So obviously we're going to break this down entirely and with a guest today on Forward Progress to get some outside on what's happening. But at the moment we know that there's going to be a little bit of short term pain as the remainder of the signing bonus that wasn't prorated over the three year deal now accelerates against this year's gap. What I'm wondering is now does this accelerate the trade possibility for DJ Moore? Does it mean the timetable moves up or it changes not only with Tremaine Edmonds, who's, who's clearly going to be gone, but are there other ways that they can make some cap savings? Do they have to cut anybody else to make some room to get what they need? Not cut to cut. You're not trading DJ Moore just to get whatever 4th or 5th round pick you would be trading DJ Moore in part because you're going to sign Tyler Linderbaum. This is what I'm trying to figure out at the moment that the. The actual rubber meets the road. Ramifications here, where you have to do things to field your team, and now you've got two fifths of your offensive line completely blown up without necessarily having internal answers. And if it is Luke Newman, you know, these. These are decisions you got to make so you can get started on what's next.
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Dan Bernstein
Let me first say that I agree with you in the fact that I hope he's okay. I hope his family's okay. I hope that this decision that he made to walk away from football after five years when playing at a very high level still was a decision that he made on his own, that his hand wasn't forced for whatever reason. I hope that that's the case, that he walked away on his own. That being said, look at the. The whole, the big picture of an NFL football team where the Bears are at. First of all, is this ideal? Absolutely not. It's not ideal. Is it the end of the world? It is not the end of the world.
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Brad Biggs
Listen, you know why? You know why it's not? They have the coach and they have the quarterback.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. That's beat me to it. You have the coach, you have the quarterback. The two hardest things to get.
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Brad Biggs
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm not saying that you can't find a center. I'm not saying that, oh, Drew Dahlman can't be replaced. He certainly can. When this happened, couldn't have happened at a better time for the organization. This is not week three when he's been struggling, you know, the first two weeks of the season, and decided, hey, I just don't want to do this anymore. It happened now. It happened before the 2026 league calendar actually officially started. It's not the end of the world. Drew Dahlman graded out as the eighth best center according to PFF in the 2025 season. There were a couple. There were games that if you sat down and thought right now, Dan, you could think of a dozen plays you could remember that Drew Dullman negatively impacted the Bears now.
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Brad Biggs
Yeah, but he's a Pro bowl player.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, listen, let me finish. Overall, of all the plays, yes. He was more of a positive. Of course, again, the eighth round rated best center in the league, one of the best at his craft. Right now. Is it ideal? No. Could it have happened at a worse time? Absolutely. The Bears will be able to solve this and figure this out. They will be able to do that. Now, I'm curious to hear now over the next several hours, days, weeks leading up to the draft, how the minds. The mindset has shifted at Hallis hall because going into this offseason it was all defense, defense, defense, defense, defense, defense. And I don't disagree with that. With one exception. The left tackle. I thought the left tackle, me personally feel the left tackle should, I felt the left tackle should have been the main priority. Now you have, as you mentioned, 2/5 of your offensive line with question marks. What do you do there? So I'm curious to hear how this shifts. After I hear if there's anything given to us, the public, about why Drew Dahlman made this decision, then I'm curious to hear how the, the perspective and the shift in, in strategy changes for this offseason with the Bears, if it does at all.
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Brad Biggs
Let me add a couple things to this portion of the discussion that I think are really significant. One is much of Dolman's importance last year and the importance of any veterans center. The Bears, we're going to add, isn't just in the pass blocking and run blocking and he was in large part an exceptional zone run blocker. And I, and I think they really should lean into that side of things when deciding who's going to fit that, that position for them next year. And beyond getting the Bears set at the line and saying, here's the protection that we're in, communicating with the quarterback, what do you see even before the huddle is broken? If they're in this, we're this, and if they're in this, we're this. And having that, that brief period of intense communication that has to occur from the moment the huddle breaks to the moment the ball is snapped. My preference, if things are working out well, let me, let me uncouple that from my preference. I'm going to say objectively, if things are going right for the Ben Johnson offense, that responsibility should belong more to Caleb Williams than whoever the center is.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, agreed.
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Brad Biggs
And next year, like this year of growth, I want Caleb Williams, whoever the center is, not to say, hey man, you know, you really got to help me out with these protections and who's what. I want Caleb Williams be like, I got you, we're good. Don't worry about it. We're going to do this together. I saw it that Caleb Williams, his own development, his own development in Reading, seeing, feeling what's going on, understanding the protections, he can take more of that responsibility because he's the quarterback, right?
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Dan Bernstein
And we saw that growth this year in Caleb Williams from week one to week week 18. His recognition, his development, his understanding of defenses grew. We saw that throughout the Games, it was, it was pretty clear. Now, I will say this too. Whatever they went through in the first three weeks of the season when the offensive line wasn't gelling, and these guys haven't played together a lot, despite being veterans in the interior of the line, and then have five new guys together, whatever it was that they did to get them accelerated to a position where they're comfortable, working together, being together, and we actually became effective after the bye week and running the football, whatever steps they took, put those steps in place. Once that center is here in the building, get those guys accelerated in that area. So you're not working things out on the field during regular season games. Get that shit figured out. Like whatever it is you did, whatever techniques you used, whatever time you spent, use that to get that gelling process before the actual regular season starts. Now, I think it will be impacted by the growth of Caleb, the fact that it's Ben Johnson's second year, everyone's second year with this offense, the majority of the, the core players on offense that will be back again in the 2026 season. Whatever you took, whatever it took for you to do that, get that going, get that process started. Let's not use regular season game to figure shit out.
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Brad Biggs
Yeah, that's coaching. And that, that means that every rep that they talk about, everything they do, every, every mental rep, every one in pads, without pads, becomes that much more significant to not was. All of this matters now, and it always should. But it's not like, oh, gee, this is exciting new coach, let's see what happens. The Bears know they're supposed to be good. They know they have a tough schedule. They've got the coach, they've got the quarterback. One way you make that matter, one way you know that that's true. In fact, and I think technically that would be begging the question, but is the fact that you can weather storms like this and, and, and I hate to bring up this name cause I don't like him, but man, you didn't care who was blocking for Aaron Rodgers. You just. It didn't really matter. They had so many injuries and they would miss a tackle and Bakhtiari would be out or this guy would be out. And, and it matters a little bit. Obviously the quality of the player in front of you matters. But I would like the development of coach and quarterback to be so significant that it does mitigate anything that happens in front of him. Is it asking a lot? Of course it is. But I don't think it's asking too much for what our expectations are for this team.
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Dan Bernstein
No, and with, with the, with Ben Johnson as the coach, we started off saying that you have the coach, you have the quarterback. With Ben Johnson as the head coach, you, you shouldn't see as significant of a drop off if you bring in a guy that isn't at the level of Drew Dahlman, like you mentioned with, with Green Bay, because you had an elevated play of Aaron Rodgers, one of the best to ever do it in the game at that position. But you shouldn't see a significant drop off regarding, like who you bring in. Now. If you bring in someone who's better than Drew Dahlman, great. That's the goal. That's the ideal plan. Bring in not only a guy who's as good, but hey, here's an idea. Someone who's even better at the position. That would be great. So I'm just. Again, could have happened at a much worse time. The Bears are going to be fine. They're going to figure it out. It's not like they're not going to have a season now that Drew Dolman is gone. They'll have a center in place, and it's going to be a guy that's going to work well with the rest of the offensive line. They'll figure out left tackle. You know, even when Kevin Byard said it a few weeks ago, I want to be here. The hardest things to do are find the coach, find the quarterback. The Bears have those answered. Okay, The Bears have those answered. Now your general manager, the front office, all the scouts, you know, Jeff King, all these guys in place. Now, do your job. Do your job. It happened before the season officially started. You're not. You're not hamstrung now. You're not screwed because you've invested money in all these places. The doors wide open. Figure it out. Now you need a center, you need a left tackle. You need to address your defensive line.
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Brad Biggs
I always say, don't miss a mailbag. I always say, don't miss a mailbag. And that is true again today as Brad Biggs has put out some thoughts here. But of course, deep, deep, deep in here, many paragraphs down into this piece, you scroll and you scroll and you scroll to find this. He writes, as best I understand it, the Bears were aware this was a possibility, even a probability. But that won't make replacing Dahlman easier. This is why you got to read these things and you got to read them in full. Because I said, wait, whoa, what? Hold on. This is your lead. He said, as best I understand it and this is somebody as tight with Bears peeps as you're going to find. The Bears were aware this was a possibility, even a probability. When did you know that? Who. Who in the organization knew that and when?
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Dan Bernstein
So when, you know, hearing it worded that way from a guy who's inside Hallis hall as much as anybody, there's. There's one of two things. Either Drew Dahlman had been floating these feelings about, hey, I just don't have it anymore, I'm just not that interested, whatever. So he's been floating those feelings out to people in the front office, which.
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Brad Biggs
And some people do that. Look, how long do we work with Terry, right. I gotta retire ever since he was 50 years old. I gotta get out. That happens. I gotta get out of here. Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
Now, the second possibility is something that I hope isn't the case. When they say it was a probability. It's because that his hand was forced and they were. They were well aware of it. Because his hand is being forced to retire.
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Brad Biggs
Right. That there was. And that's what we don't know.
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Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Brad Biggs
Is it that he has. It could be anything. If it's neurological, it could be the smallest thing. It could be. And you know how. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's not speculate in any way.
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Brad Biggs
I don't want to speculate medically. I don't want to because there's any number of things. I know everybody goes immediately to. To brain stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
But it could, I mean, it could be something as simple as a bone spur, like someone that would, you know, dodge a draft multiple times. I mean, it could be something as easy as that. You just never know.
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Brad Biggs
You never know what it might be or what imaging might show. The other thing that, that Biggs writes here is what you led with. They're fortunate Dalman reached this decision at the start of the off season and not in training camp. And here's where I'll disagree a little bit and already have. He says the challenge is for Ben Johnson and Ryan Polls to find someone who can take all the stuff off Caleb Williams's plate that Dalman did so well. That's calling protections and organizing things at the line of scrimmage. Crucial stuff to the success of the offense. My point being put more stuff on Caleb Williams plate a little bit. It's Caleb Dam Williams. I'm okay. I'm okay with him not having to outsource some of that stuff and be in full command of the offense and tell that center, we got this, I got this. That's what a great quarterback does. If he's going to be great, if he really is going to live up to the highest ranges of expectations, he doesn't need stuff taken off his plate. Give him a bigger plate. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
So I'm not going to, you know, disagree with you fully that Caleb should be able to do more. He's going into his third year as a quarterback. But I also think they can find a quarter a center out there that can match what Drew Dahlman did. That's not going to be impossible. And to put the question out there, like, oh, man, are they going to be able to find someone that can, you know, that that took all of the stuff off of Caleb's plate. Yeah, they can. They can find a center. He was great. I don't want to diminish anything that he did in his career. He was one of the top centers in the league. Again, graded very high after the 2025 season. You can replace Drew Dahlman. They'll find a guy to replace Drew Dahlman again. The greatest thing that happened is when this happened. The door's wide open. You've got all the opportunity in the world now to figure out what you need to do for 2026. You haven't committed any money to anyone yet. The season hasn't even started. You have till next Wednesday. That's when it kicks off. You're good to go now. Figure it out. Do your job.
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Brad Biggs
Here's the conclusion from what Biggs was saying, because I'm always trying to read in between the lines because obviously, you know, he's working the phones after this happens. And he says the Dahlman news created waves across the league and stunned folks who work for other teams. And now is when it gets interesting. Here, tell me what this says to you. Players will tell you that every now and then they encounter a veteran who was just working to get the financial security of a second contract before more or less mailing it in. Their heart isn't in it. The game doesn't run in their blood. I don't think that was the case with Dahlman at all. He didn't shortchange the Bears last season. He was on the field for every offensive snap. For whatever reason, he decided it was time. There's something to be said for walking away on your own terms, even if it's a move that makes others uncomfortable. What does that mean? I don't understand others uncomfortable. In a way, just like making your job harder. In fact, that making. Making polls have to tap dance here and all the things that we were talking about before is that what he means by uncomfortable or is it the uncomfortable football culture stuff? Because I don't like that. I don't like that.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, there's a. There's a lot. There's a lot there that would love to know what his thought process was in writing that. Because you, you don't say those things. That first part. You don't write that. Unless that's the situation here. Yeah.
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Brad Biggs
A veteran working to get the finding. And then you write it and then you say, I don't.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't think that's the case.
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Brad Biggs
I don't think that. I don't think that was dumb. And that wasn't like the.
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Dan Bernstein
Why say. What's the. What's the point of saying it?
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Brad Biggs
That. That. That graph confused me a little bit. Yeah, I wasn't sure, but. Well, there's. There's all sorts.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know if that's just a gentle way of putting that out there.
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Brad Biggs
I don't know. Or is that like the football side because the signed a contract, you made a commitment, and your brothers in the foxhole and all that football garbage. But, you know, it's a, it's a, It's a brutal game, and when you're done, you're done, and you're probably better off. It could be that he's getting ahead of what he's talking about. It could be that Dolman did this because he didn't want to be a player that fit that description. Right. That would be my guess.
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Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Brad Biggs
He's seen it.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. In his five seasons, he's seen that. And it also goes back to, and we talked about it briefly when we had our emergency podcast yesterday, the tweet that Caleb Williams put out with that emoji. And we don't want to, you know, investigate the emoji too much, but, you know, you're. When you use an emoji, whatever situation is, you're deliberate in what you're picking. And the dude picked a smiley face emoji with a tear. That wasn't a quarterback that was caught off guard. That wasn't a quarterback that was surprised. That was a quarterback who knew this was coming and is sad that his friend is leaving his teammates gone.
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Brad Biggs
That's.
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Dan Bernstein
That's what that was.
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Brad Biggs
So who appears to understand and is going to say it looks like he's ready to set the right tone with.
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Dan Bernstein
With his teammates that, that, that said to me, I'm happy for you in your decision, but I'm sad that you're no longer, you know, the center On. On this team.
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Brad Biggs
Yeah, I just. I'm. I'm getting back to this as I. We're. We're. Brad Big says the Bears were aware this was a possibility, even a probability. And that is a. It's a big flashing red light for any journalist out there to say, oh, really? A probability based on what information that they received when.
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Dan Bernstein
Right again, there's. There's two things. It's. It's. He's floating the idea that, hey, I'm just. I just don't. I'm just not here for it anymore. I think I'm good. Or his hands being forced and they were well aware of that.
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Brad Biggs
Or it's. You know, sometimes guys just in the weight room say stuff. Sometimes you get somebody on. It's a workplace, man. I can't stress this enough. It's. It is. I know we don't think of it as an office with a coffee maker and vending machines. And vending machines. The water cooler. Right. But it is. It's a workplace. And sometimes you get a guy on a. Who is, you know, in his feelings a little bit, and he'll. He'll tell you something he wouldn't otherwise tell you. And that stuff will filter up to decision makers, or it's more formal than that, or there's a full disclosure where Drew Dahlman may have said when he signed the deal, I don't know if I'm going to play this entire contract. This is all stuff that we're going to learn, and we'll learn it. We'll learn it when it comes out.
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Dan Bernstein
Right?
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Brad Biggs
Yes. Correct. You know, March is here. And what does it mean? It means college basketball is heating up, and that means it is time to get in on the action with my bookie. The conference races are tightening the bubble. Teams are fighting for their lives. Every game matters. Every possession feels bigger. Even. Even your Miami Red Hawks last night. And. And athletic director David Saylor, they. They avoided the. The frightening possibility of a defeat that might.
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Dan Bernstein
You mean when you said you're. Do you, like, you're them or you're me?
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Brad Biggs
Either one. You can have them if you want them.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, no, no, no. I thought you were signing them.
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Brad Biggs
No, I did. I did walk back in the hallway the other day and mentioned. I said, hey, I told Medland, I said, come get your mans. Come get your ad. Reel him in a little. What do you say? He's like, I know. He's just. He's really into it. He's just excited. And I said, and by the way, that That M I L L I that I thought was Milliken was not. That you looked at yesterday. What is it, Milligan? Apparently they had three scores. They had three NAIA teams on their schedule.
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Dan Bernstein
Are you serious?
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Brad Biggs
Okay, I know. I'm in the middle.
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Dan Bernstein
They played three NAIA teams.
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Brad Biggs
Let me finish your read.
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Dan Bernstein
Finish.
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Brad Biggs
I guess. I guess we're going to do this now because you're not going to believe this.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, finish your read. Let's do this. Let's call an audible, Dan.
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Brad Biggs
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Do you read first?
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Brad Biggs
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Dan Bernstein
Okay?
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Brad Biggs
And I want you guys to know there is a rule in which NAIA schools can declare at least one NCAA D1 game each year as an exhibition while the NCAA team counts it as a regular season game. Now obviously this is, this is a rule in place to allow these NAI teams to take these to get these checks and get paid to go in there for a loss and not technically have it count against them because they declare it an exhibition.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, Makes sense. I get it.
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Brad Biggs
Right?
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. If you're not familiar with the naia, it's the national association of Intercollegiate Athletics headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. For It's a governing body for small character driven college athletic programs in North America. Founded in 1937, it supports over 87,000 student athletes across 250 schools offering 29 national championships, 1.3 billion in financial aid and often more accessible eligibility requirements compared to the ncaa. I went to an NAIA school at Moody Bible Institute and had we played Miami of Ohio, they would have beaten us by 200 points.
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Brad Biggs
Well, these three schools, Trinity Christian, which apparently based in Palos Heights. Right? Yep. I know Trinity Christian, Milligan, which is out of Tennessee.
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Dan Bernstein
I've never heard of Milligan. So that explains why when I was on ESPN and looking at their schedule and when a team schedules listed you can click on their opponent and it's show up.
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Brad Biggs
Yep.
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Dan Bernstein
And the mill I1 was, it wasn't highlighted, it was dull and you couldn't click on it.
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Brad Biggs
Well, that's why there's no link for Milligan College out of Tennessee and IU east was on their schedule. Those are three NAIA schools.
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Dan Bernstein
Is it Iowa, Indiana?
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Brad Biggs
I don't know. But this, this is what this, this former NAIA sports information director said I checked all three of those schools schedules and sure enough, all each one's game against Miami of Ohio was classified as an exhibition. Okay. So his, his belief is absolutely no way they should get in unless they win the Mac tourney.
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Dan Bernstein
Indiana University East. IU East.
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Brad Biggs
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
It's a regional university in Richmond, Indiana. And so this former NAIA sid says that there's absolutely no way they should get in unless they win their Mac tournament.
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Brad Biggs
That. Yes, that each one of these, each one of these schools, Trinity Christian and Palos Heights, Milligan and IU and Indiana University east had classified their game for their purposes against Miami of Ohio as an exhibition game, which Miami of Ohio has counted as a regular season game.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, so. And obviously the strength of schedule comes into play in deciding season and all that good stuff. So they're now 30 and. Oh. So 27. Zero against NCAA opponents that were actually playing real regular season games and then three. Zero against NAIA schools. Interesting.
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Brad Biggs
Okay. Are we good?
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. So. Yeah. Thank you. You answered Millie. Millie and is now Milligan and not Millie Vanilli. Yeah, it's not Millie Vanilli.
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Brad Biggs
Yes. It's not. It's not Mulligan. It's. And I. I thought Millie might be. What was his name? Febreis Morvane.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, I have no idea. I thought they played like Mike Mulligan one on one.
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Brad Biggs
Oh, my giddy aunt. If she had balls, she'd be a giddy uncle. I only go one deep on Milli Vanilli. I think. I think I got.
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Dan Bernstein
I got nothing on you.
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Brad Biggs
So, hold on. You can't name the other member? No. I bet you can, and you're lying.
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Dan Bernstein
No, I'm not. I have no idea. I thought their name.
- [31:38]
Brad Biggs
I would have gotten it.
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Dan Bernstein
See, I thought they were Millie and Vanilli. That's why I thought their names were.
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Brad Biggs
I would have recognized it despite my inability to recall it.
- [31:49]
Dan Bernstein
My wife would have guessed it.
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Brad Biggs
I guarantee that if you saw the name Rob Pilatus, you would have picked it.
- [31:55]
Dan Bernstein
No, I wouldn't have.
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Brad Biggs
Fab Morven. Yes. Fabrice Morven and Rob Pilatus. I would have gotten that second name if I had a. Had a multiple choice.
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Dan Bernstein
I can tell you right now, I've never seen their names.
- [32:09]
Brad Biggs
Oh, yeah, you have. Of course you.
- [32:11]
Dan Bernstein
I haven't.
- [32:11]
Brad Biggs
During this. During this scandal. Yes, you have.
- [32:14]
Dan Bernstein
I have not.
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Brad Biggs
You've seen their names.
- [32:18]
Dan Bernstein
I have not seen their names ever.
- [32:19]
Brad Biggs
You've never seen the names of Milli Vanilli, even during the Giant. If you would have said scandal. Come on.
- [32:25]
Dan Bernstein
Listen. Tell me, who are Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus?
- [32:30]
Brad Biggs
Oh, you would have known that.
- [32:31]
Dan Bernstein
Otherwise murder your entire family. My family would be gone.
- [32:34]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I've never heard their names before in my life.
- [32:38]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
- [32:38]
Dan Bernstein
Why would I have ever heard their names?
- [32:40]
Brad Biggs
Because they were. They had ignominy. They had infamy. They were world famous, familiar with story.
- [32:46]
Dan Bernstein
But yeah. Yes, you could play the song right now. I'm not sure. I didn't even know it was their song.
- [32:52]
Brad Biggs
That's not true.
- [32:53]
Dan Bernstein
It is true. It's true.
- [32:55]
Brad Biggs
Damn it, girl. You know it's true. In fact, I.
- [32:59]
Dan Bernstein
Stop calling Me, Girl, I've told you that.
- [33:02]
Brad Biggs
Oh. Oh, nothing. It's got to be. Come on. You knew that one.
- [33:06]
Dan Bernstein
No idea.
- [33:07]
Brad Biggs
You know it's true. Ooh, ooh, ooh.
- [33:11]
Dan Bernstein
What year was that, that this all happened?
- [33:14]
Brad Biggs
1989. Yeah, the number wasn't listening. Oh, no. The Funky Drum.
- [33:20]
Dan Bernstein
I didn't listen to music in 1989.
- [33:22]
Brad Biggs
Why not?
- [33:23]
Dan Bernstein
I was too busy with Bulls and Pistons.
- [33:26]
Brad Biggs
You were busy. I was busy. They won the Grammy. That was the whole scandal.
- [33:32]
Dan Bernstein
What about their Grammy?
- [33:34]
Brad Biggs
Was she involved also with Mulligan's giddy aunt? Yes, it's the giddy aunt, the giddy uncle, and their Grammy. Stop seeing Grammy.
- [33:45]
Dan Bernstein
All right, let's move on.
- [33:47]
Brad Biggs
Oh, nothing. It's got to be. It wasn't bad. They just weren't singing. That was part of the problem. But then they.
- [33:53]
Dan Bernstein
Then they. Actually, I don't think that's part of the problem. I think that is the problem. That was the.
- [33:56]
Brad Biggs
Actually, it was the entire problem.
- [33:57]
Dan Bernstein
The actual problem. Yeah. I don't think that's part of it.
- [33:59]
Brad Biggs
Right. It wasn't really more complicated than that. Now that you think of it, it's pretty simple, actually. Yeah, that's true. I didn't think we'd be arguing about Milli Vanilli today, but, you know, you never know what's going to happen when you turn on Dan Bernstein. Unfiltered. That's what unfiltered means. You never know anything. Yeah, you never know what a Milli Vanilli discussion is going to break out in the middle of everything.
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Dan Bernstein
Dan, I can't believe they played nai schools.
- [34:20]
Brad Biggs
Three of them.
- [34:21]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, my God. I didn't know that.
- [34:23]
Brad Biggs
Well, a lot of schools play a horseshit, you know, preseason schedule. Sure. But the games don't count.
- [34:29]
Dan Bernstein
Right.
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Brad Biggs
Like, I remember that one time when I was at Duke, they played. Because those were the games. Those bad games were the ones that I would get to broadcast. I wasn't doing student TV play by play. When they're playing North Carolina.
- [34:43]
Dan Bernstein
Right.
- [34:43]
Brad Biggs
You did it.
- [34:44]
Dan Bernstein
They played IUE when they played William and Mary.
- [34:47]
Brad Biggs
And when they play. When they would play Marathon Oil or one of the. There was, like, the Italian national team
- [34:55]
Dan Bernstein
came in Marathon, like a company, you guys, like, oil riggers came in and played.
- [34:59]
Brad Biggs
Marathon Oil had an international club team. Oh. Made up of former oil riggers and. Yeah. No, no, it was. Marathon Oil was the sponsor of. Of like, this touring club team that Globetrotters, but real. And they made their money playing against some college teams and playing exhibitions. I don't really remember exactly what it was, but they had. It was a. It was a place that had jobs for guys that didn't make the NBA.
- [35:29]
Dan Bernstein
So you got to do like the D level games, those.
- [35:33]
Brad Biggs
When, when Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting wasn't in there or when ESPN wasn't in there, CBS and we would negotiate and they say, okay, well, here, here and here. Feel free.
- [35:44]
Dan Bernstein
Your TV guy was. It was named Jefferson Pilot.
- [35:47]
Brad Biggs
Not us. We were cable 13. Jefferson pilot at the time was the regional.
- [35:54]
Dan Bernstein
That's not a guy's name.
- [35:56]
Brad Biggs
No, that. That was like the kind of corn. That was the corn pone. ACC contracted regional broadcaster. Oh, God. What was the name? Bucky. What the hell was his name? I don't even remember the. It was. It was just a lot of people that sounded very southeastern. Where's.
- [36:14]
Dan Bernstein
Where's Duke play again? Was it Camden Indoor? What does Cameron call it?
- [36:18]
Brad Biggs
Cameron.
- [36:18]
Dan Bernstein
Cameron Indoor.
- [36:19]
Brad Biggs
Yep.
- [36:20]
Dan Bernstein
So I'm Jefferson Pilot here at Cameron Indoor. It wasn't him.
- [36:24]
Brad Biggs
No, it wasn't. The guy wasn't named Jefferson Pilot.
- [36:26]
Dan Bernstein
That'd be a cool name, though.
- [36:27]
Brad Biggs
You can look it up like the broadcast.
- [36:29]
Dan Bernstein
And by the way, the Globetrotters are real, by the way, so don't.
- [36:31]
Brad Biggs
Well, I know they're real, but they're not. Yeah, I'm not getting into this when we're talking about Team USA, Team Italy, etc. I'm mindful of yesterday. The international teams started out some of their exhibitions against some of the spring training squads getting ready for the World Baseball Classic. And I'm looking at the US Team and you know, generally I pick a different team to root for. Because you hate America. I don't. Well, I don't like us stick up the ass baseball, the baseball police, the Tony La Russa is the old. Because America, for. For a long time in baseball has been this, this. For whatever reason, they've tried to say play the game the right way. And we don't. We don't jump around and jump up in the air and over celebrate because this is American baseball. Act like you've been there before and all that stupid, stupid stuff. And the one thing the World Baseball Classic has done is it's shown everyone how bad we are at having fun playing baseball. All these other countries actually evince the joy of playing this wonderful game. And whether it's been the one year where Puerto Rico was where they all had their blonde hair thing and Carlos Beltran of the blonde beard, we were joking. Everybody looked like Moon Mullen out there running around or whether it's the Dominican team or any of these other squads. And one year was the Cody Decker team is real team that was having so much fun with Brad Osmus and those guys. Other groups have more fun than Americans do because for some reason, we as a country have decided baseball needs to be deadly serious. And I guess it's just a very simple request. It's a simple ask of Team USA this year, win or lose. And it's a. It's a hell of a team. And there's. There's hall of Famers aplenty on this team. But have fun and act like you're having fun. Try to have fun. I think Mark DeRosa gets that a little bit. I like Mark. I think Mark's a really good guy. He's nice and he's smart. And I also know it's very easy in American baseball culture to fall back on this road or the right way. They threw inside our guy. Now we're gonna throw inside to them. You send one of theirs to the hospital or send one of yours to the morgue or whatever it is.
- [39:13]
Dan Bernstein
That's the Chicago way. Not the Chicago. Oh, I get a Chicago way.
- [39:16]
Brad Biggs
I see. I was. I was lost in there. But the. When you look at this lineup Here, here's the US lineup right now. Bobby Witt Jr. At shortstop, Kyle Schwaber, DH Aaron Judge in right, Bryce Harper at first, Cal Raleigh catching, Roman Anthony and left, Alex Bregman at third, PCA and center, and Bryce Tarang at second. Wow. Yeah, it's pretty good, right?
- [39:41]
Dan Bernstein
That's pretty good.
- [39:42]
Brad Biggs
The bench right now is Byron Buxton, Paul Goldschmidt, Ernie Clement, and Will Smith. The pitchers, Logan Webb, Tariq Skubal, Paul Skeens, Nolan McClain. And then the other starters are Matthew Boyd, Clay Holmes, Clayton Kershaw, Michael Waka, Michael Waka, and Ryan Yarborough. But just. Is it. I don't think it's. It's too much to ask. Just have fun. Just go. Go play and make it look like this is fun for you, because why not? I know PCA will do that. I don't worry.
- [40:21]
Dan Bernstein
He'll certainly do that. And I think he'll influence a bit of the culture and the. And the attitude and the approach to it.
- [40:27]
Brad Biggs
I don't worry about him. Yeah, I don't worry about him. But this. It has always bugged me that you just. I'm envious. I get envious watching Dominican baseball. If you. If you watch Lidom L I D O M, you know, Liga International Dominican, and those games are Crazy. The music and the chanting and the jumping and dancing and sexting and everything that goes on. It's. We should have that here. There should be that kind of excitement and silliness and expressiveness. It's something that comes around every year. And we'll get into this a little bit later on when this does happen, but when it's. Because it's soon. But always notice this. I always find this striking. And used to when we would be sitting at the score and we had the multiple televisions up there, none of them in high def, of course. And you'd have the College World Series and then you'd have the, the softball College World Series going on. And if you look at the biggest difference between those two, the games, exciting, competitive, hard fought. The difference is the women smile and the men don't.
- [41:46]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, they have fun. They're fun.
- [41:48]
Brad Biggs
They, they. Here they are at the highest level of what they do. Oh my God, they dare to actually smile. Yeah. And here's a bit of baseball. Tough draw a walk, flip my back, run down to first. Oh, he threw inside to me. Oh, I'm mad, just my nut scar. But just chill, man. It's baseball. This is an international baseball exhibition. Maybe you win, maybe you don't, but if the US team can make that, it is a huge step for them because American baseball players are terrible at having fun playing baseball. And they say it afterwards, you love the game, love the game, love the game. Around my guys, being around my bros, love being in the locker room. I love my teammates. Yeah, but do you actually like playing baseball? Because you in this country, you know, ruined everything. The parents ruined everything. They suck all the joy out of everything. And I could. I had a great conversation with Tim Corbin, who is the coach at Vanderbilt, and he said it, when I asked about that, he said the reason why American baseball has this is because the parents take the fun out of everything.
- [43:07]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, well, I'm not going to disagree with that.
- [43:08]
Brad Biggs
He said, he said that these kids that are playing in the Dominican Republic and the kids that are playing in the streets of San Pedro de Macares or the kids that are even playing organized ball in Mexico, an organized ball in Puerto Rico, the parents just don't act like this. They let them play, they let them have fun and they let them play and they let them develop and there's structure there, but there isn't the same kind of American bullshit that goes on.
- [43:37]
Dan Bernstein
Well, I think outside of this country, Dan, it's, it's viewed as a privilege to play a game with the possibility of bettering your life through a sport, through a game, through having fun. And here in America, American parents and kids feel like they're entitled to something that they're not because they haven't earned it. That's, that's a huge difference to it. The entitlement of it all. USA is in a pool with Mexico, Italy, Scoozy, Great Britain and Brazil.
- [44:03]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
- [44:04]
Dan Bernstein
That's the group they're in that they'll play their games down in Houston.
- [44:11]
Brad Biggs
And the pool play starts Thursday and Friday, I believe.
- [44:15]
Dan Bernstein
Sounds, that sounds good.
- [44:17]
Brad Biggs
All right.
- [44:18]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
- [44:19]
Brad Biggs
Last time the, the Japanese run up. I saw, say a Suzuki hit a bomb the other night. I know sometimes he has some issues with high fastballs, but if he's on top, if his, if his, if he's on top of some of that stuff. Yeah, look at how you're.
- [44:38]
Dan Bernstein
What was that, that acronym for that you said?
- [44:41]
Brad Biggs
The Lynn lidom. L I D O M. Look that.
- [44:45]
Dan Bernstein
Why lie down? What's it? Because you had like a niner in there. What was that? What was the, how was it stand for?
- [44:50]
Brad Biggs
No, it is Dominican Professional Baseball. Liga de Baseball Professional de la Republica Dominica.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay,
- [45:02]
Brad Biggs
all right.
- [45:03]
Dan Bernstein
I thought I heard a niner in there.
- [45:04]
Brad Biggs
No, it's L I D O M. You can check it out at L I d o m.com and ldom. Yeah. And you know what you see on their splash page? Players, a kid smiling. Smiling. Yes, yes. There's. There's Tatis Jr. There's Soto. Guerrero is Guerrero's kind of. But he smiles all the time anyway. He's got enough. But, but really, it's just most of these other teams like, oh, baseball, baseball. You know what? Baseball is fun. It's fun. You run around and you hit a ball with a stick and you pat people on the ass. It's supposed to be fun. That's what you do all day. And you spit a lot too. You scratch yourself and you spit a lot and you sit in a dugout and you talk about things. That's pretty much it. What's more fun than that? It's really important, by the way, that if you need windows that you get them because you take them for granted in your house sometimes. Because. And you also don't realize what a difference better windows will make. And you will understand when your heating bill and your air conditioning bill, you see some of this like, oh, windows. Uh huh. So call Russ Armstrong and then you'll really understand when you get good windows in your house that are custom made for your house by somebody who's going to give you the best deal. And it can be intimidating. I understand. Because you hear so many ads and you hear all of these things, do this now and get two free and buy one and get one 50% off or just talk to her. It's so much easier just to call Russ and have him explain, well, okay, well, you could say that's a good deal and that's it. But he'll match any of the, any of the prices. But he sits down and you have a cup of coffee and he says, all right, well, what are you looking at? What are they saying? Okay, well, I'll do this and I'll do this and I'll do this. And then you can have your windows made, custom made for your house in Chicago and installed by people who work directly for Russ Armstrong. So he knows who they are. It's not any of the subcontracted third party stuff because most of these other big window places are just farming it out. And you should ask the sales rep when you're getting quotes, who's installing my windows? Russ can tell you exactly who's doing it. And I've had two different installations with Chicago window guys with Russ. And it's always the same where he comes out and tells me all of these specifications about these windows. And it's really more than I can handle. I say, russ, I love you, I trust you. You can handle it. And I do do what you would do if it were your house as far as the quality of the windows. Okay, great. Here's what we're gonna do. Let me just tell you what we're doing and how we're doing it. Great. And you cannot beat the price because he will match any other price you get out there. It's all locally done here in Chicago. And he's in touch with you. The who call him 847-302-9171. Also, and this is, and he does say this and I'm allowed to say this, that he's got a replacement guarantee. And he says, even if you're getting ready for baseball this year, and believe me, I know IHSA is out there, if your kids, literally the kid practices and he throws a ball through the window, Russell replace it for you. He says that. So this, you got that going for you. That's nice. 847-302-9171. Check out all his five star reviews at ChicagoNowdownGuys.com Russ also smiles a lot too. So, yeah, he does. Well, you have that going for you. If you talk curling, he'll smile a lot. Oh, he absolutely loves anything regarding curling. All right. I saw this story and it might be against my better judgment to do it, but I had to. Okay.
- [48:52]
Dan Bernstein
Can always edit this out.
- [48:54]
Brad Biggs
So go ahead.
- [48:55]
Dan Bernstein
Fire away.
- [48:56]
Brad Biggs
A man.
- [48:56]
Dan Bernstein
Give it to me, Nate.
- [48:57]
Brad Biggs
A man relieving himself on the railway tracks in Alwar, Rajasthan, India, died after a cow fell on him. What? A. A man relieving himself on the railway tracks. Okay. Died after a cow fell on him.
- [49:29]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, boy. Like an actual cow?
- [49:33]
Brad Biggs
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, boy.
- [49:36]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
- [49:37]
Dan Bernstein
How does that work?
- [49:37]
Brad Biggs
The cow got in the way of a. Of a train, a Vande Bharat train. And this looks like a big, serious fast. It is. It's a semi high speed train. The incident occurred in the jurisdiction of Aravali Vihar Police station in Alwar, Rajasthan. The deceased has been identified as Shivdal Sharma, a man who retired from the post of an electrician in the Indian Railways 23 years ago. So this guy was a Railways electrician who still wanted to seek out that place to relieve himself. According to Shivdyal's relatives, a cow got in the way of a Vande Bharat train that left kali Mori around 8.30am the impact of the collision was such that a portion of the cow's body fell 30 meters away over Shiv Dayal, who was relieving himself on the tracks. Shiv Dayal died on the spot. So cow hit by train. Cow flies through the air and blasts. This poor guy.
- [50:56]
Dan Bernstein
All right, so he's on the train tracks taking a leak. A cow got hit by a train. And cow debris flew 30 meters through the air and landed on this guy and killed him. Yep. Oh, boy.
- [51:12]
Brad Biggs
The semi high speed Vande Bharat trains have had run ins with cattle along many routes. The maximum number of them. This is my. I don't know what that means. The maximum or probably the highest number being reported in the. The Mumbai Gujarat stretch. Within days of its launch, the Mumbai Gadinegar Vande Bharat super fast Express train suffered minor damage after colliding with cattle back in October. The next day, the same train sustained minor damage to its nose panel after it hit a cow near Anand, stationed in Gujarat.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I'm. I'm. I could be making this up, but I. I thought that like cow. Cows are considered sacred.
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Brad Biggs
Yeah. Yeah. Let me.
- [52:01]
Dan Bernstein
India, Right?
- [52:02]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
- [52:02]
Dan Bernstein
We got more to it.
- [52:03]
Brad Biggs
Okay.
- [52:03]
Dan Bernstein
Yes. Okay. I'm just getting to it.
- [52:05]
Brad Biggs
On October 29, the Mumbai Gandhinagar Vande Bharat had a run over with a cattle. It says Here it is probably poorly translated with AI near Atul. And Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said collision with cattle on the tracks is unavoidable.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I disagree with that.
- [52:28]
Brad Biggs
And this has been kept in mind when designing the semi high speed Vandebara trains. Meanwhile, the Western railways has decided to put metal Fencing along the 620 kilometer long Mumbai Ahmedabad route to stop animals from straying onto the tracks and prevent accidents. So that railway said, you know what might help a fence to keep this from happening? The other railway, the other railway says unavoidable. It happens. But now you ask the more pertinent question and that is death by cow is classified how in Hinduism? Because I would think it would be sinful for the wanton destruction of these sacred symbols by a railway company to say it's unavoidable. We don't care. I would think it would be that you should take those kind of preventive measures not only to prevent, to protect people who might be taking that ill advised leak on the train tracks in this particular area where cows striking trains should be presumed. We know this and I believe the bears also. Someone told Brad Biggs that this was likely to happen.
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Dan Bernstein
And we don't know, we don't know
- [53:50]
Brad Biggs
exactly when they heard that this was probable. But is that some sort of sanctified holy death if you are actually killed by something that is that, is that closely associated with Krishna? I don't know.
- [54:05]
Dan Bernstein
We'll have to ask an expert on that. But I just think you can avoid this.
- [54:10]
Brad Biggs
You could avoid it by the cows are.
- [54:12]
Dan Bernstein
So if they, it's such a sacred symbol in your, in your culture, then do the take the necessary steps to prevent this from happening.
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Brad Biggs
That's what I thought. Well, at least one rail line is doing that and the other isn't. But these were all the questions that I had.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. And for them to say like it's, it's unavoidable. It reminds me of that comedian that was talking about the crane kick and Karate Kid where the, where Miyagi was like no can defend. And the comedian was like, well you can defend it. Just don't walk into the guy's foot. That's an easy way to defend it. Don't walk into the kick. There's a very easy way to avoid cows from being hit by a train. Put up a goddamn fence.
- [54:48]
Brad Biggs
Right. Or slow down.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, no, it's a high speed rail. You're not going to slow down.
- [54:53]
Brad Biggs
Look, this has been a problem, been a problem forever if you note like, if you picture an old steam engine train, like a wild west steam engine train. Sure. Right. Big smokestack. Do you know that little triangular thing on the front? You know what I'm talking about?
- [55:10]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, like the little scooper.
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Brad Biggs
It's a. It's called a Cow catcher. Oh, isn't it?
- [55:14]
Dan Bernstein
I have no idea.
- [55:15]
Brad Biggs
Am I making that up before? I. I don't think I'm making it up because I remember, like, building models.
- [55:20]
Dan Bernstein
I'm sure you're not.
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Brad Biggs
I think it was called a cow.
- [55:23]
Dan Bernstein
Billy Models.
- [55:24]
Brad Biggs
Building. Oh, building models.
- [55:27]
Dan Bernstein
You remember Billy Models as a kid? Who's Billy Models?
- [55:30]
Brad Biggs
Oh, is that like. Was it Billy Strings or. I'm getting all screwed up with people's names now in music. Because now it's like Teddy Swims and Billy Strings and Larry Jumps and Tommy Humps. Like. Like. Are you just supposed to give yourself the last name of, like, what you do or something?
- [55:51]
Dan Bernstein
Like, you'll be. You're.
- [55:52]
Brad Biggs
Danny talks. No, Danny Talks.
- [55:54]
Dan Bernstein
Danny Talks.
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Brad Biggs
Right? Is that what just we're supposed to do?
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know.
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Brad Biggs
Teddy Swims. Okay, well, why is he singing then? I don't know. I forgot what I was going to say. But, I mean, bottom line is you
- [56:07]
Dan Bernstein
can avoid the cows from being hit. You can. It is avoidable.
- [56:11]
Brad Biggs
But that's just got to suck.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, I don't know. So this guy retired 23 years ago. So let's say he retired at 62 and he's 85. Maybe he's wandering out of the home. Maybe someone should keep an eye on this guy. Maybe there's no reason to be wandering to the train tracks to take a leak.
- [56:30]
Brad Biggs
Maddie blames the victim. Maddie?
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Dan Bernstein
No, I blame his caretaker.
- [56:34]
Brad Biggs
Your fault.
- [56:35]
Dan Bernstein
No, your fault.
- [56:37]
Brad Biggs
You got hit by a flying cow.
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Dan Bernstein
It is not. I'm not blaming. Don't say that. I didn't. Why?
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Brad Biggs
They say he can run the routes for him. He's. He's on it. He knows exactly where that cow is going to take off. And he's right.
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Dan Bernstein
It's his caretaker. They should be blamed.
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Brad Biggs
Okay, okay. Don't. Don't let Sharma walk in front of cows.
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Dan Bernstein
Let's just say.
- [56:57]
Brad Biggs
Let's say he was.
- [56:58]
Dan Bernstein
He was fortunate enough in his electrical career to retire at 55.
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Brad Biggs
Okay?
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Dan Bernstein
And it's 23 years. 23 years ago. Now he's. Now he's. Now he'S 78.
- [57:08]
Brad Biggs
Maybe he was, you know, again, like Drew Dman. Maybe he was forced into retirement due to an electrical mishap that fried his brain.
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Dan Bernstein
So maybe he's maybe he retired at 27 and he's only 40 right now.
- [57:20]
Brad Biggs
Exactly.
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Dan Bernstein
He's 50 years old.
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Brad Biggs
Exactly.
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Dan Bernstein
But if he's got some kind of cognitive issue, keep an eye on him.
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Brad Biggs
And you were going to have him on from the 50. That's the shame of it all.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, he was next week's guest.
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Brad Biggs
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Dan Bernstein
All right, I got a couple of things for you before you go.
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Brad Biggs
All right. I also have another exciting announcement, but.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, good. Announce it away.
- [58:56]
Brad Biggs
No, you have other things.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, so two. Two real quick things. First of all, the Bulls game last night, that 120 run they had late in the game, it screwed me. That was. That was really irritating. So I went 1 and 1 last night with that stupid Bulls loss. So 23, 7 and 1 is where I'm at because I had OKC given 10 and they had. They had a big lead and then they got 12.
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Brad Biggs
Oh, run. It was. It was a bum fest.
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Dan Bernstein
That was annoying. So I'm chasing it tonight. And I, I did a thing last night out of anger for today with four games. I'm doing a four game thing. I don't know why I should be doing that, but the second thing I wanted to share with you. I don't know if you saw this. United Airlines, my favorite domestic airlines, they are now, they put out. They put out. They let people know that if you are on their airline and you're watching your phone, listening to your phone, talking on your phone, and you refuse to wear headphones, they will kick you off the plane. Yes, yes, they will kick you off the plane. And they're saying they could potentially ban you for life from flying United Airlines for not using headphones.
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Brad Biggs
Oh, that's fantastic.
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Dan Bernstein
It is fantastic news. I saw that today. I was so happy.
- [60:13]
Brad Biggs
Can we do this everywhere?
- [60:16]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, it should be every public transportation. Yes, for sure. But I love the. United's doing it. Thank you, United. That's why you're my favorite domestic airline. I love flying United. They're the best planes. They're the best accommodations. I think the staff is great. Every time we fly United, I always have a great experience with it. Now they're telling me that the douchebags that use their phones out loud are going to be kicked off the plane and possibly banned for life from flying United.
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Brad Biggs
You know, I. This was. Beth and I were talking about this too when we were in London, the two of us. I can't tell you how in the middle of how many museums or supposedly quiet places. We were in an art museum and there was a woman loudly facetiming and like, holding it up and talking. Oh, well, look. Look at this painting. And it's right behind me. Isn't this great?
- [61:09]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, that drives me insane.
- [61:11]
Brad Biggs
And I kind of glanced at the security person who was this older British man who gave me as wry an expression if a raised eyebrow can say a thousand words. That meant with a simple look and a shake of his head, I got acknowledgement. I was seen, I was understood. And I completely groked what he was getting at, which was, man, I'm with you. There's nothing I can do about it right now. But yes, like, I got everything. When he, when he sort of made this look like, you have no idea how often I deal with this crap. And people just sitting on their phones, having conversations or watching a video like it's an art museum. I'm pretty cool about some of that stuff. But just at least excuse yourself and go down to the hallway outside the bathrooms or something, or stand outside on the street. Come on, man.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it's annoying. And when it happens on planes, it's annoying. The train, the metro, it happens. It's super annoying. Hey, we mentioned earlier Jefferson Pilot.
- [62:24]
Brad Biggs
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Do you think he was part of Jefferson Airplane
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Brad Biggs
or spaceship? Right. Didn't they become a starship,
- [62:35]
Dan Bernstein
spaceship?
- [62:36]
Brad Biggs
It was something like that. That's when everything got bad. And they built this city. Right. Didn't they build this city on rock
- [62:42]
Dan Bernstein
and roll after they landed here from outer space?
- [62:44]
Brad Biggs
They did. Well, same thing. What's the difference?
- [62:48]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, it's a huge difference. Dan stars in space.
- [62:50]
Brad Biggs
Very, very different.
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Dan Bernstein
All right, what's your announcement?
- [62:53]
Brad Biggs
Okay, my announcement is we have our winners from last month's app contests.
- [62:58]
Dan Bernstein
We have wieners.
- [63:00]
Brad Biggs
Not only do we have wieners. Hot dog. Congratulations to Roman from Tinley park. He won the $100 gift certificate to Perry's Steakhouse.
- [63:10]
Dan Bernstein
Nice job. Roman.
- [63:11]
Brad Biggs
Ed from Palos park, ed won the 100 gift certificate to Big Star. And Matt from Palatine won the 100 gift certificate to STK Steakhouse.
- [63:27]
Dan Bernstein
Nice. Good job. Congratulations.
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Brad Biggs
Yeah. And if you're just joining us, what do you mean they won? What do you mean you guys are giving away hundred dollar gift certificates to all of these great places? Well, every month the three one two Sports app will reload with these freebies. So now it's March and we've done that. If you haven't gotten the app yet, you're. You're really missing out because it just is going to streamline your life. It's going to make everything easier. And there's all kinds, not only the alerts that you need, but like, look, look at how cool this is. Look at that. See, there's all the stuff and everything you need and all these cool. All the, everything. All of the pods here. Look at that. You got a great logo from the 50s, a really nice little cover page there. I like. Thank you.
- [64:09]
Dan Bernstein
You know, my wife created that for me.
- [64:11]
Brad Biggs
Did she? Yeah. This is not a. Not a Jeremy signed in production. She created. Yeah.
- [64:16]
Dan Bernstein
Then he, he kind of touched some things up and yeah, put his, his magic on it. But yeah, that was really good creation.
- [64:22]
Brad Biggs
Yeah, I like that. And there's. And because Jeremy did the, the new OWC stuff that they're always having fun with and cool things there. So if you check out the app and you go to the rewards page, you can get this at the Apple App Store or Google Play. Here's what we have. Now you can win great prizes in the app right now. Dinner for two at Rosebud on Rush.
- [64:48]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, My God, I love Rosebud on Rush.
- [64:50]
Brad Biggs
Didn't you work at one of those?
- [64:52]
Dan Bernstein
I worked at Rosebud in Naperville when I was working Murph and Fred Show.
- [64:57]
Brad Biggs
The quintessential destination for classic Italian dining in Chicago. Rosebud and Rush.
- [65:02]
Dan Bernstein
Iconic. Iconic Rosebud and Rush.
- [65:04]
Brad Biggs
Bub City Beautiful. The destination for barbecue, whiskey and live country music. Lunch, dinner, weekend brunch, late night dining. And I'm not done yet. Osteria via Stato. Oh, just drove past her the other day. I love that Rustic, honest food. Warm, welcoming atmosphere will transport you to the Italian countryside. And that is one of those places you can graze yourself.
- [65:28]
Dan Bernstein
Yes.
- [65:28]
Brad Biggs
Into. And you have to roll out of there like, I'm just nibbling. I'm just nibbling. I'm just nibbling. Well, I've nibbled the entire menu at this point.
- [65:36]
Dan Bernstein
Great restaurant.
- [65:37]
Brad Biggs
Yes. Yeah, I love Osterristado. So there's dinner for two at all of those places and. But wait, there's more. Tickets to see the Head and the heart in concert May 2 at the Auditorium Theater. I was lucky enough to see them do a few songs over at the. At the other tower. Head in the Heart concert May 2 of the auditorium Theater. The way you win is by entering the promo code Spring on any reward. That's your promo code. The promo code is Spring on any reward for a chance to win. That is on the 312 sports app that you can download in the Apple App Store and Google Play and have that on your phone.
- [66:24]
Dan Bernstein
We can't win those things, though, right?
- [66:26]
Brad Biggs
Certainly not. Okay, but if you kind of walk down to Dave's office and you ask, hey, you got a couple of tickets lying around for heading the Heart, maybe he's got the hookup for you. And that has been Dan Bernstein Unfiltered. It has been brought to you in partnership with my bookie,
- [66:44]
Dan Bernstein
Dan Bernstein unfiltered.
- [66:46]
Brad Biggs
Unfiltered on 312 Sports.