World Cup Stories: Ranch Dressing, The Scots and Beer

Summary

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Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – Episode Summary

Episode: World Cup Stories: Ranch Dressing, The Scots and Beer

Date: June 18, 2026
Host: Dan Bernstein (with Beth, Jason, Juan Naula, and producer Matt Abbatacola)
Podcast: Dan Bernstein Unfiltered – 312 Sports

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Main Theme

This episode explores the cultural oddities, surprises, and sometimes hilarious adjustments international fans are making during the 2026 World Cup in the U.S. Dan and the team dig deep into viral food fads among tourists – especially ranch dressing mania – and recount the exploits of Scottish fans in Boston. The show also pivots into sharp, honest discussion of American sports, cultural criticisms, and a no-holds-barred take on a brewing MLB controversy involving homophobic gestures by Giants pitchers. All of it delivered in classic Bernstein style: witty, irreverent, and uncompromising.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. World Cup: Ranch Dressing Diplomacy

[03:00–12:00]

• Ranch as Unexpected World Cup Star:

  • U.S.-hosted World Cup draws global fans, sparking surprise demand for American food – especially ranch dressing.
  • “Ranch dressing mania” is so intense the TSA warned travelers about liquid limits for bottles in luggage ([04:43]).
  • Social media awash with Europeans raving about ranch, gas stations, chain restaurants, Waffle House, and the novelty of American road food.

• Memorable Quotes:

  • “Who knew diplomacy could be achieved through dressing the obvious? Ranch is the king of condiments.” – Dan ([06:22])
  • “I hope they’re getting good ranch dressing, and not bad stuff.” – Dan ([07:42])
  • “I just don’t want them ruining traditional fish and chips… Once you go down that road…eventually we are all swimming in ranch dressing.” – Dan ([10:17])

• Food Cultures Collide:

  • Fears Americans might export their “bad habits and ranch overload” back to Europe.
  • Beth shares stories from travel in Dublin and London, reminiscing about truly great fish and chips, and hoping ranch doesn’t replace curry sauce or tartar sauce ([11:44]).

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2. Fried Chicken, American Gas Station Culture, and Culinary Anecdotes

[12:11–16:48]

• Road Trip Cuisine:

  • Dan on the joys of finding good fried chicken in unexpected places – gas stations, off-brand stops on Midwest drives.
  • Fried chicken love passed down from Dan’s dad, who kept journals on the best chicken found during collegiate adventures.

• Funny Moment:

  • Beth: “I’ve had more fried chicken in the last nine months than in the last 30 years… because of you.” – Beth to Dan ([14:14])
  • The tradition of people ranking gas station and roadside fried chicken is celebrated.

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3. The Scots, Beer, and World Cup Invasion

[17:01–22:00]

• Scottish Fans in Boston:

  • “The Tartan Army” (Scottish supporters) descend on Boston, drinking bars dry — including the flagship Sam Adams Tap Room ([18:16]).
  • Emergency deliveries were needed to restock; quadrupled normal holiday sales volumes ([20:37]).
  • Local bars and liquor stores were overwhelmed, running out of Bud, Corona, even breaking fridge doors from heavy use.

• Notable Quotes:

  • “Sam Adams, Boston Tap Room ran out of Sam Adams. That’s insane because Scottish soccer fans drank it dry.” – Dan ([18:19])

• Minimal Impact Tourism:

  • Scots praised for cleaning up after themselves at a picnic, leaving public spaces cleaner than when they arrived ([19:56]).

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4. International Perspectives on Americana

[22:00–26:00]

• The U.S. as Theme Park:

  • Foreign fans loving what Dan finds “vulgar and gross” about American excess — highway stops, gas station fried chicken, epic convenience stores, huge cars.
  • “Maybe world peace is just a giant pool of ranch dressing” – playfully suggested as a metaphor for finding common ground.

• Ranch vs Tartar Sauce:

  • Dan aggressively declares: “Tartar sauce sucks. It’s bad. Mayonnaise and pickles… no thank you.” ([23:56])
  • Beth disagrees, illustrating the intensely personal nature of food preferences ([24:14]).

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5. Quick Hits – Norwegian Fans & World Cup Moments

[26:03]

• Beth describes viral video of Norwegian supporters pretending to row up escalators – “Those wacky Norwegians!” ([26:09]).

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6. Unfiltered Sports Talk

[30:00–36:20]

• Chicago Teams’ Check-In:
  • Covers recent Cubs and White Sox games, calling out broadcaster absences and bullpen woes.
  • “Their low leverage bullpen is minor league.” – Dan ([34:26])
  • Comment on age trends in pro sports — how young players dominate, the decline of 30-plus athletes ([35:06]).

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7. Serious Segment: Giants’ Pitchers and Pride Night Backlash

[40:23–52:01]

• Pitchers’ Homophobic Protest:

  • Bernstein eviscerates Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on their Pride Night hats, passionately explaining why it’s more than a “personal expression.”
  • “You don’t get to say ‘all the love to those people’ because you expressed the opposite.” – Dan ([44:43])
  • “Your dad taught you to be a bigot. You don’t have to be a bigot anymore.” – Dan ([50:34])

• Accountability and Consequences:

  • The hosts stress how protest under religious pretense singles out and dehumanizes an already-marginalized group.
  • “You chose to do it. It’ll be over and done when people are done pounding your ass for being hateful.” – Dan ([50:56])

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8. Golf & Other Sports Quick Hits

[52:01–54:44]

• U.S. Open updates at Shinnecock: Dan roots for Rory McIlroy or Rickie Fowler, distinctly not for Patrick Reed or Brooks Koepka.

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9. Fun Wrapup: The Reflecting Pool Solution

[56:01–57:39]

• Bizarre, Playful Suggestion:
  • Solution to algae in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool: fill it with “dippable, edible ranch dressing.”
  • “There’s no double-dipping allowed.”
  • “What happens in the reflecting pool stays in the reflecting pool.” ([57:27])
  • Imaginary party: Dan, “Agent Orange” (Trump), Jim Jordan, and others, lampooned.

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Notable Quotes Section

| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|---------------|-------| | 06:22 | Dan | “Who knew diplomacy could be achieved through dressing the obvious? Ranch is the king of condiments.” | | 10:17 | Dan | “Once you go down that road…eventually we are all swimming in ranch dressing. And maybe that’s the secret to world peace.” | | 14:14 | Beth | “I’ve had more fried chicken in the last nine months than in the last 30 years… because of you.” | | 18:19 | Dan | “Sam Adams, Boston Tap Room ran out of Sam Adams. That’s insane because Scottish soccer fans drank it dry.” | | 23:56 | Dan | “Tartar sauce sucks. It’s bad. It’s always been bad. Every version of tartar sauce is bad.” | | 44:43 | Dan | “You don’t get to say ‘all the love to those people’ because you expressed the opposite feeling.” | | 50:34 | Dan | “Your dad taught you to be a bigot. You don’t have to be a bigot anymore.” | | 57:01 | Dan | “We have to fill the reflecting pool with edible-grade ranch dressing.” |

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Segment Timeline

• [03:00–12:00] – Ranch Dressing, American food, World Cup tourists
• [12:11–16:48] – Fried chicken and gas station food culture
• [17:01–22:00] – Scottish fans' beer feat in Boston
• [22:00–26:00] – Americana through foreign eyes, food debates
• [26:03] – Norwegian supporters and escalator antics
• [30:00–36:20] – Chicago sports talk: Cubs, Sox, youth in pro sports
• [40:23–52:01] – MLB controversy: Giants, Pride Night, and backlash
• [52:01–54:44] – U.S. Open golf, rooting interests
• [56:01–57:39] – The "ranch dressing reflecting pool" gag
• [58:00–end] – Light signoff, future episode hints, personal chatter

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Tone & Final Thoughts

True to the podcast’s name, this is Chicago sports — and American culture — told uncensored. Dan moves from affectionate ribbing (World Cup food culture, Scottish beer conquests), to sharp sports analysis and an impassioned critique of intolerance in baseball. The episode blends biting humor (“ranch diplomacy”), personal storytelling, and candid takes, making it equally engaging for sports fans, casual listeners, and anyone observing what happens when the world comes to America — and gets a taste of everything, for better and worse.

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Transcript

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[Dan Bernstein]

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[Beth]

We don't.

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That.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, that's what? Already there Nothing. Why are you already laughing at me?

[Beth]

I'm not. I'm not laughing at you.

[Jason]

I'm laughing.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, you are.

[Beth]

I'm with you.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, you're not. I know that laugh. And that's the at you and not with you laugh.

[Beth]

You don't know my different laughs.

[Dan Bernstein]

That what I do.

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[Jason]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's.

[Jason]

That's. Here we go.

[Beth]

I couldn't hold the important stuff in.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's all it was. Oh, I see. Because you know how significant this is. That's why. That's why this is one of the

[Beth]

most important stories of the year.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know it is because I don't. Sometimes things just hit you in a place where you're like, wait a second, this matters.

[Beth]

Well, because we've, we've devoted segments to this already on this show.

[Jason]

I know.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's why we come by this honestly. There, there are other. Usually you see something like this and most like news operations or, or media conglomerates of some kind would say, hey, put this in your pile for kickers and say, okay, well, and finally tonight, instead of the water skiing, water skiing squirrel, you get a story like this. But not here, not here. I know how to reprioritize things when I think they matter. And I say what matters today. And apparently this is a sports story. Dog sports. I am. This is a sports story. The World cup is the biggest sporting event on this, this planet, this rock that is hurtling through space. And the biggest thing that happens from. In sports is every four years, all of these little arbitrarily defined things that we call countries put together teams of people who are the best in their at kicking a ball, and then they get together and they play and the winner gets a tiny little trophy. But it's a big deal for everybody. And they're here, the games are here in North America and they're here in the United States. So people are coming to follow their countries and follow their teams and they discover things about our country. And what's amazing is that in general, the larger story is a lot of the things that I've learned to dislike about our country, everybody else loves. And now that I think about it, it's been that way for years. And believe me, this is not going to be some sort of exercise in flag waving American exceptionalism. I'm not good at that.

[Jason]

However,

[Dan Bernstein]

the hegemony of ranch dressing is in full effect. If you have not been following this, and I am not making this up, there is an absolute mania that's beginning to occur with people in this country for the World Cup. Discovering ranch dressing as a salad dressing as a condiment, as its. Its very existence, to the point where so many travelers are trying to bring back as much ranch dressing as possible that the TSA is issuing specific warnings. I'm not making this up. This is from the Independent and you can find this elsewhere if you don't believe me. The Transportation Security Administration has shared words of wisdom for World cup tourists who may want to take bottles of ranch home from America this summer. Many European tourists have been documenting their first ever trip to the US this month to support their home nations in the World Cup. And in the process, international fans have discovered their love of ranch dressing. And it adds here a popular condiment in in America. So the TSA has reinforced its limits for how much liquid can be stored in carry on baggage as it predicts an uptick in people trying to take bottles of ranch dressing home with them. I guess it's happened already. They said. Who knew diplomacy

[Jason]

could be achieved through

[Dan Bernstein]

addressing the obvious ranch is this is made for you. I know it is. I know it is. I get, I get dad puns and I get, I get you my love for ranch dressing and the specificities therein is it. Who knew diplomacy could be achieved through dressing the obvious Ranch is the king of condiments. This was on Instagram from the tsa. The world is slowly discovering ranch pairs perfectly with pizza, chicken wings, fries, onion rings, quesadillas, crackers, chips, vegetables, and the list just keeps growing. Are you kicking around the idea of flying home with your favorite diploma? The Post said, okay, please avoid chugging your ranch outside security. The airlines will check it for you. It says so your carry on wasn't made for check notes. Four bottles of ranch and a taser. You want to be American? There you go. You know what? This would have been the perfect day for me to wear my Republican shirt.

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[Dan Bernstein]

It would have could have worn my fishing shirt with the, with the pixelated camo on there in the various shades of blue and the big like Z Man lures on the, on the shoulder. And I don't even use Z Man lures. And it says discount tackle, which is even more on brand for me. I'm shopping in the back for the, for the discounted tackle with expiration dates. So there all you have to do is check out anything that is aggregating some of the social media posts about American, American food and specifically ranch dressing. Everyone's like, what is this? Why don't we have this where we are? And I hey, I can't answer for you. I hope, I hope, I hope you're getting good ranch dressing and not bad stuff because I think there's a wide range depending on if you like it more acidic, more of the buttermilk, more tart and less creamy if you want.

[Beth]

You know what their majority of people are getting here?

[Dan Bernstein]

Probably Hidden Valley.

[Beth]

Yes. Which is if they're taking bottles home.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm sure they're I that I prefer wishbone to Hidden Valley, but that's just me and I like it when I do wings. I like it a little bit watered down. I don't like it as thick as. I saw a little bit of cold water in it and thin it out. But that's just my taste. I'm always striving for the Denny's ranch. Is that somehow whatever they get at Denny's, and there's different recipes for it online that debate how much sour cream or how much buttermilk and how much mayonnaise. What is important to realize, and this is what scares me a bit, is I hope this doesn't ruin traditional fish and chips, because the once, if they get, like, good ranch dressing for their fish and chips, and there are the number of posts from Waffle House. Now they've discovered Waffle House, too. And people at raising canes, like, oh, what's raising canes? Oh, it's like fish and chips, except it's chicken. And instead of tartar sauce or curry sauce, they have all these different variations of ranch dressing. And people are astounded. I saw a tweet from Portillo. It was a tweet. I don't know what it was. It's just one of the aggregators had a post from Portillo's of somebody who was absolutely over the moon about the idea of a milkshake. There's cake in the milkshake. And they're reacting as if this is some sort of revelation.

[Beth]

And maybe, yeah, I mean, I hope that they're enjoying, you know, experiencing America and our food culture. Just don't. Don't bring the fat back with you.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know, because leave all the fat here. Well, Europeans eventually will because they've all stopped smoking, too. So eventually they're going to start eating nothing but ranch dressing. I just. Because fish and chips are so good if you do it right. And we were luckily steered in some, some really good directions. We did a lot of homework and asked people, but Hobson's in London, I think there's three. Think there's three Hobsons for fish and chips and their homemade curry sauce is. That's a reason to go to London. It's so good. So I hope they don't be like, well, ever since the World cup, it's all ranch dressing now. Because once you, Once you go down that road and once you understand, wait a second, I'm gonna try putting this on more things. And then you keep adding things to the list. That's what, that's what it does. And you get mission creep. And eventually we are all. We're all swimming in ranch dressing. And maybe that'll. Maybe that's the secret to world peace. Maybe that brings everybody together and we'll all dressing.

[Mark McCray]

Yeah.

[Beth]

Then maybe, you know, hopefully they, they learned that they could bring packets back home with them. They didn't have to bring the jars or the, the, the squeeze bottles. They could get packets and maybe order them online back home. But yeah, don't ruin your authentic fish and chips with the ranch dressing. When we were in Dublin, me speaks and, and Jay Z, we had, we went to Leo Burdocks.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay.

[Beth]

Like real famous fish and chips. And it was, it was the best thing I ever had in my life.

[Dan Bernstein]

I didn't go there in Dublin. We didn't do, we did fish and chips in London but not Dublin.

[Beth]

Yeah. Oh, it was great. It was so good.

[Dan Bernstein]

I, what I did in, in Dublin, in and in Galway like everywhere in Ireland was they're, they're butter because there's so many like dairy cows everywhere and dairy farms everywhere. Oh my God. I just any excuse to have their butter.

[Beth]

Do you buy the Kerry Gold here

[Dan Bernstein]

every once in a while? Not all the time. That's not my regular go to just like cooking butter and all that. But, but yeah, if I'm doing something special or I'm, I'm finishing something and I need that, that heavy fat butter, I will do Kerrygold or Normandy butter with a high fat content. But I just thought it was awesome that of all things the, the humble bottle of ranch dressing is what's getting people going here. And then the amazement, some of these videos, the amazement about what our gas stations are about pulling over at, whether it's you know, a flying J or a BUC EE's or these, these places where a pilot and you, you are getting off a highway and you go in and it's an oasis. It's like a mecca. It's like a trading post. And they're like, I can't believe this is a gas station. Look at all these things. There's somebody making homemade this and there's a sushi stand or whatever it may be. And I love the perspective of understand so many. And look, I'm serious that when, when we would go make the, the, the trip to take Zoe to college in central Ohio or bring her back from college, go visit her and make that six hour drive that there was always involved stopping. And I love finding fried chicken at gas stations or places you wouldn't expect to find fried chicken. I'll always get it. I'll eat, I'll eat fried chicken four times a day. If we're stopping and they have something that is off brand or Something I've never heard of. Oh, I'll try that. Sure. You make it fried chicken. Let's give it a shot. And Beth makes me eat it outside of the car. So we have to stand there and wait so she'll sit in the car while I stand outside and eat the fried chicken.

[Beth]

And she doesn't want to hear you or see it. I don't blame her.

[Dan Bernstein]

She doesn't want to see it, smell it, hear it. She understands it's important to me, but I'm not allowed to eat it in the car.

[Beth]

I was just talking with Natalie about this the other night, that I've had more fried chicken in the last nine months than I've had probably in the last 30 years of my life.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why?

[Beth]

Because I just don't eat a lot of fried chicken? Well, no, it's because you. And being around you again a lot. It is your fault.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's my fault.

[Beth]

I go to the grocery store and I. I grab one off the hot plate on the way out and I eat it in the car. You know, it's your fault.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know. I know. And it's. And it's. And especially the Mariana stuff that sits in the tray, and it's all salty

[Beth]

because what did she do? She got wings or. No, she got chicken from maybe Jewel and brought them home for. For Lucas, my youngest stepson. And there was a couple drumsticks left over I got to have. And I was telling her, I'm like, I've had more fried chicken in the last nine months since 312 started because of you.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's my thing.

[Beth]

And I'm like, and it's good, and I'm glad. And I was like, why haven't I eaten more fried chicken? It's like, it's what you should eat more of.

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[Dan Bernstein]

And I. Of all things, like, you know, I've spent too much of my life missing out on eating fried chicken.

[Jason]

Fried chicken.

[Juan Naula]

Right.

[Dan Bernstein]

But it's. I get it from my dad, who's a huge, huge, huge fried chicken. My mom grew up in Buffalo, so she the only fried chicken. She. They really knew. There were the wings.

[Beth]

Wings. And didn't your dad keep, like, journals and stuff?

[Jason]

He was that guy.

[Beth]

Well, you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, he did. He took a couple of trips. I know there was one trip that he took with his sailing team. He was on the sailing team at Cornell. And they had. And they kept stopping. They bought some old car that was falling apart because it was like they had to get there on their own. And they. They. They kept Stopping for fried chicken or. Or the gas stations where they had to stop. Kept having fried chicken. So he made it a thing. And then later, after college when they drove, they had a huge western trip all the way, like from Seattle down to San Diego and national parks and all that. And at that point, he actually was ranking and rating and kept a notebook. I wish he had it somewhere. About all these different sort of fried chicken Americana, little stops along the way.

[Beth]

That's why the sailing team at Cornell.

[Dan Bernstein]

He was squash. Squash and sailing.

[Beth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Before my dad became a truck driver and a teamster, he was on the debate team in Yale. And he would do a lot of gas station trips, too, for sushi. So I get what you're saying there.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know exactly what it was. He just told me that that's. He did. He was sailing in squash. Don't ask. I don't know how it came from.

[Beth]

Kidding. I love H. Bruce. That's my guy.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I know. And he learned.

[Jason]

Learned.

[Dan Bernstein]

Hey, man, North Star camp teaches you how to sail.

[Jason]

Don't.

[Dan Bernstein]

Just don't ask. About the time that they tried to take one the frantic from Spider Lake into Clear Lake and forgot that there was a huge wire that went across the channel of the two lakes.

[Beth]

Oh, they ruined it. They ruined the boat.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, unless you like the mast really short. You know, they broke the broat.

[Beth]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know if this is an old unsolved mystery going back to the early 1960s about.

[Beth]

Well, you just spilled it.

[Dan Bernstein]

About what happened to their most expensive sailboat. And there are a couple of idiots from Omaha that might have just cut the mast in half. But I'm just saying, you know, maybe. Maybe somebody can use that information later. But the. The idea of all of these people from other countries packing their suitcases with ranch dressing or chugging it. Chugging it at TSA is great, but it's not as good as what the Scots are doing in Boston. This story keeps going. This is from NBC. Scottish soccer fans have been a blast and having a blast in Boston over the past week with the Tartan army taking over restaurants and pubs, taking a victory lap of the City after their 1 nothing win over Haiti, marching to a Red Sox game at Fenway park on Sunday and drinking so much beer that some Boston bars ran out. Sam Adams says it. Listen to this. Sam Adams, Boston Tap Room, the flagship.

[Beth]

Okay, I know it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Tap Room.

[Beth]

I can picture it. I know it. Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

You've been there. Sam Adams. Boston Tap Room ran out of Sam Adams. That's insane because Scottish soccer fans drank it dry. Like, that's not a barbecue joint. And meanwhile, there are barbecue joints in Texas running out of barbecue because there are people from. Where was it Japan or somewhere like that, like, oh, this is awesome. And eating all that. I get that. But for the actual Sam Adams flagship Boston Tap Room, like, how about you? We have some more beer. Check the keg room. Nope, that's it.

[Jason]

We're out.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sorry. Angus drank it all.

[Beth]

That's impressive. I, I saw that the, the Scottish. There was a group of Scottish soccer fans that were having like an outdoor picnic and they, some TV crew, they. I can't remember what new station it was. They interviewed this Boston city worker and he said that he'd never seen anything like it. After they were done, they had cleaned everything up. The area that they were, they were eating outside was cleaner than when they got there. They bagged all their stuff, zip, tied all the garbage bags, left the garbage bags, like in a neat pile. And all these city workers had to do was just come by and pick them up and, and dispose of them. They just, they met, they saw it happening and they thought they were just gonna have to go there and clean up this public area. But no, the Scots, they cleaned everything up and bagged it, bought garbage bags and tied them up and left it in a neat pile for the Boston city workers to come by and clean up.

[Dan Bernstein]

Minimal impact tourism. It's, you know, we were always taught in camping, minimal impact camping. And as always, you know, when you show up at a campsite, leave it cleaner. And it's sort of a good rule about if there are certain things about. And I'm, I'm that way with certain kinds of litter. I'm outside a lot. I will always pick up things after, certainly after other fishermen. Whether it's, you know, a broken hook or a rubber lure or pieces of, you know, line that spooled off somewhere, I will always pick it up and throw it out because I just think that's what you should do. So good for them, good for the Scots. But I'm not done here. Sam Adams was not the only one here. Okay, so wait, hold on.

[Beth]

Still. Still in Boston.

[Dan Bernstein]

This is still in Boston. Okay, so they ran out of Samuel Adams Boston Lager from Thursday to Sunday. Sam Adams said the Scottish fans drank four times as much Boston lager as they normally sell during a typical four day holiday stretch like the Fourth of July. Oh, wow. Four times as much. The company had to schedule an emergency delivery on Saturday morning just to keep up. And Sam Adams wasn't the only one. Hennessy's Bar, downtown Boston told the Globe it tripled its St. Patrick's Day sales and sold out of all beer on Sunday night. All beer. We've been here for over 30 years. We've never seen anything like it, said Hennessy's chief. Chief operating officer Noel Summers, Federal Wine and Spirits in the Financial District told the Globe it sold out of Budweiser and Corona on Saturday, and the door of one of its refrigerators broke from being opened and closed so many times.

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Wow.

[Dan Bernstein]

Go Scotland. And there's, there's on Yahoo News this story of the Waffle House experience. The opinions of the ranch dressing. Not only that, they've never the military flyovers like everything that is gross about America they're loving, which is kind of adorable. There's another woman that went into a little restaurant in Indianapolis called the Lemon Drop. It's a diner. It's got like an old 1950s Coke machine in there and it's only stools at the counter. It looks a little like Jerry's Grill, actually. The late lamented Chicago Jerry's Grill and some of these. And they're dipping pizza crusts in ranch. Asking, this is an English fan, is dipping pizza crust in ranch dip considered acceptable over here? If not, it should be. Of course it's acceptable. Of course it is. So, yeah, I think it's a lesson about perspectives, too, that the things where I look at American culture and I see obviously the massive gas stations because of all of the land and our sense of entitlement to like, we'll burn all the fossil fuels. We want to drive our giant cars with the huge mirrors sticking out, like middle fingers and our ugly stickers on the back. And it just how, how, how vulgar and gross everything is. And people are flying here just saying, this is cool. We don't have any of this. Of course you don't. You don't have the land. You don't have all, all of this land and burning all of this gas and all the concrete and the power lines and everything. So I guess enjoy it is the lesson there. But yeah, we, the, the ranch thing is one thing that we kind of got right. We kind of got that right. And here's, here's the other thing, too. Tartar sauce sucks. It sucks. It's bad. It's, it's bad. It's always been bad. Every version of tartar sauce is bad. If you say, well, what do you want to put on? Fish, mayonnaise and pickles. No bad that's gross. Mayonnaise and sweet pickles. Mayonnaise and sour pickles. Whatever you want to call it. No, thank you.

[Beth]

And I disagree with you wholeheartedly.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, that's all right. You're wrong. That's okay. You're allowed to be wrong. Yeah, but. But this. But for somebody's like, wait, we've been doing this with this gross tartar sauce for all these years, and they created something called ranch that is just better than everything. It's just blissfully awesome. And, hey, I don't know if I'm the only parent that learned about ranch dressing from a kid that wasn't maybe in the mood to eat. Understanding. Hey, why don't you. Why don't you take that little thing and dip it in here? I mean, I'm talking about little kids. Like babies. Like babies, you know, starting to eat finger foods. And I. I think one of the things Jason ran into earliest was broccoli with ranch dressing as a. As a baby.

[Beth]

Oh, yeah. You mean like a raw. Yeah, over.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, over, like, overcooked broccoli. Oh, like.

[Mark McCray]

Like.

[Dan Bernstein]

Like limp overcooked broccoli. So hot.

[Beth]

Hot broccoli with.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was room temperature, but, like, sitting on his highchair tray and smearing it and ranch dressing and eating it, they're like, all right, whatever will get you to eat it. All good by me. It was. It's sort of a miracle drug in a lot of ways. We'll find out that ranch dressing cures all kinds of illnesses, too. I think once the Europeans bring it back there where they actually fund science.

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[Dan Bernstein]

That's. You know, if they could do that, we'll bring that back over. They get ranch dressing, and we get actual science research back. How about that? Is that the trade? We can do that. We can actually continue doing the research that saves lives and extends lives and quality of life and all that. And you get the mixture of mayonnaise, sour cream and buttermilk, herbs and spices and salt and pepper.

[Beth]

Yeah.

[Mark McCray]

Have you.

[Beth]

Have you seen the video of the fans from Norway riding escalators?

[Dan Bernstein]

No.

[Beth]

So they. They sit on their asses and they pretend like they're rowing as they go up the escalator. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Those wacky Norwegians. Yeah. No, they've got some antics, as Joe Girardi would say.

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[Dan Bernstein]

You know what they say, These Norwegian escalator riders, they don't respect the game. They've got antics.

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[Jason]

Just.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's a relationship builder more than it is a, like a coaching chops test or anything like that. It's just go spend time with some of these really important players. You're going to have two first round draft picks that are probably playing. Two second round picks are going to be. And then these, these first rounders this year are going to end up being really important players wherever this team goes. And so the building that relationship, I think is important. So I want Splitter for sure to coach the summer league team. Like I said, we'll get into all that on OWC a bit later. And I, I guess I killed the White Sox, didn't I? What did I do? What happened?

[Beth]

Well, you talked about them. You spent a significant amount of time talking about them going into the Yankee series about the marquee matchup.

[Juan Naula]

It was.

[Beth]

You looked at the players and the, you know, the, the certain war of certain players.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. And then they were just.

[Beth]

And then. Yeah, and then you, like you, you, you, you killed Davis Martin on the mound.

[Dan Bernstein]

What did I do Yesterday?

[Beth]

They lost 10 to 5.

[Dan Bernstein]

I mean, I apologize. Yeah, but Colson Montgomery had two home runs. He's still good.

[Beth]

He's still good. But you killed the team. I don't know.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, they'll be fine. Right, Won't they? Yes, I just.

[Beth]

Knight. It's Sean Burke and Ryan Weathers. Tomorrow they're on the road. They get Tarek Scubal and his second start back from injury.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't like that. Okay, well, it's, it'll be, it'll be fine. I, I just want the broadcasters back for both games. I want, I want the regulars back. I, it was just a weird night last night because you've got Pleasak and Doofus who are doing completely different games and it sounds like that, that you've got both games. You have the play by play guy interviewing the analyst. So in your day, what would you do here?

[Beth]

I don't know. Try to hit the ball.

[Dan Bernstein]

I don't know. Like, Cliff Floyd is not here for, for the play play. He's, he's just not interested in doing your comedy bits.

[Beth]

Yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't know if it's just all that because when he's with, when he's with Shambi, he's a little more interactive and, and playful with it. And maybe, maybe, maybe that's what it is. Maybe you've nailed it with saying it's like an interview style where, where when Boog's there, it's just they're having a conversation and it's around baseball and different things. I don't know. Maybe that's what it is. But it just, it, it's not as good as it normally is, but it's not as bad as what I heard listening to socks Yankees.

[Dan Bernstein]

So yeah, just. I mean, come on. There's. This shouldn't be that hard. I'm not sure. And maybe it gets sort of gets back to what some owners have said about if you're our guy, be our guy. We don't want people to tune in of other people there. And I guess if I was, you know, supporting Jason Benetti's right to have those games off because he was doing national stuff. I, I don't mind it because your person is doing national stuff.

[Beth]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

But if somebody's just off to be off.

[Beth]

Yeah. And Pat's been off on the radio for the Cubs for this series as well too. Zach's been doing it the whole time with, with Ron. Oh, yeah. And I don't, I don't know why. I'm not sure the reason why. I'm sure they said it. I just didn't hear it. But we were, we were watching the end of the game. It Was eight to six. And we got an imminent threat warning on our phone systems there. From, from the weather system.

[Jason]

You did?

[Beth]

Yeah, we did. So we had that.

[Dan Bernstein]

Not from the fic. I got from.

[Jason]

Okay.

[Beth]

Like a tornado warning. We came downstairs, we put the TV on down here and we're down here with all the kids. And then the emergency message came on the screen and cut the end of the game off. So I was like, all right, don't check phones. Like, did the Cubs win, is the game tied? Or the Cubs in the bottom of the ninth losing?

[Dan Bernstein]

And everybody had to write it down or everybody had just predictions of what we saw.

[Beth]

Of course, I was the only one that said cubs loose, dude. If that game came back on and

[Dan Bernstein]

if that game went two more innings and you're getting into there, you needed two, buddy.

[Beth]

I'm not sure you needed two. I think you needed one more relief pitcher and it was probably a done deal.

[Dan Bernstein]

It is one thing to be a bum pitcher. It's another thing to be a Cubs bum right now because.

[Beth]

Well, no, I think you, you, you worded perfectly. When you, you call it, you're calling their rel. Their bullpen.

[Dan Bernstein]

They're low. Their low leverage bullpen is minor league. Yeah, it's a minor league grouping. And you got call ups who just aren't supposed to be in the majors.

[Beth]

Yeah, I didn't realize, like, for whatever reason last night I looked at Feel Bar and I thought, how old is this guy?

[Dan Bernstein]

100?

[Beth]

I didn't, I didn't realize he was 39. I didn't, I didn't know he was that old. And when I saw his birth date of like 87, I thought that that's too long ago to be on my pitching staff.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's too long ago. I'm sorry.

[Beth]

I need my, I need my pitchers be born like 2000 at the latest.

[Dan Bernstein]

And your position players, well, yes, all my players. That's in every sport.

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[Dan Bernstein]

If you want to, if somebody really wants to do a big picture sports story, that's the story is you have, you know, Victor Weam is 22. Dylan Harper is 20. P. Crow, Armstrong, like you, you start 24.

[Beth]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

You start to look at what, where your prime is, when you matter and with, with the speeds and, and all of the, the physics of the highest level of pro sports. These are young men's games. Yeah, these are young games. You know that it's everywhere and fast. It's changing fast. Fast. I, you, you can look at all the math. Joe Sheehan has done the work for baseball, he's done the work to show you that you, you. If you've got a prospect, I mean, certainly pitching prospects don't waste anything in the minors. If they're really good, if they get stuff, get them up here and let them start throwing and figure it out up here. And the same is going for hitters where you say, well, the prime is 28 to 32. No, you're toasted when you start getting.

[Beth]

Well, when Joe Sheen last was on the program with us and you were talking to him, he said, once you hit like 32 is the new. Like Cliff.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yep, that's it.

[Jason]

You're done.

[Dan Bernstein]

Unless you're really special. There's not a lot of Paul Goldschmidt's or Cody Bellinger's out there. There's. You had to be really special to be viable after that age. And man, when we were also doing it in the NFL, when we on forward progress yesterday, we're looking at the unsigned free agents and how many of them are really rich? Second contract. 30 plus players or 30. 30 year old players.

[Beth]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

And. And nobody wants them.

[Juan Naula]

No.

[Beth]

When we were kids, it was like, oh, this guy's turning 31, 32. He's coming into his prime. He's getting ready to get his man

[Dan Bernstein]

muscles, his old man's strength. And then now you're done.

[Beth]

That's crazy.

[Dan Bernstein]

You're done that. It's. These are young men's games. And I don't know if you could track this also with. With Olympic sports that I don't know how many. If it's happening with sprinters, is it happening with speed skaters? I don't know. I don't know if there are, you know, swimming should have a little bit more. Just because there isn't the same kind of wear and tear in your joints. There's the same kind of impact, you know, hockey, you think is a little later because there isn't the same kind of impact with skating, you know, you're not pounding on your feet and your knees all the time. And maybe there's an ability to be effective a little bit later on, but overall, man. Yeah, I'm with you. You can set your birth dates just like a bar. You cannot play for Matt Abaticola unless you were born after 2000.

[Beth]

2000. Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay, I get it there.

[Beth]

Let's go.

[Dan Bernstein]

I'm cool with that.

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Here's a follow up on a story this is the from the the World of The stupid and the mean and what. What happens when you're stupid and mean? And then people tell you, hey, you're being stupid and mean? And then the people who are stupid and mean realize, I don't want people

[Jason]

to call me that anymore. I wasn't trying to be stupid and mean, except I kind of was, but I'm too stupid to realize I was being stupid.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's what's going on with these Giant shithead pitchers, because the New York Post actually talked to some of these guys. Well, what's now been going on for a week when this group of dipshits was completely unaware of just how it might be taken in San Francisco on Pride Night, when they go out of their way to write a Bible verse on their hats, that's the equivalent of a massive middle finger to the entire LGBTQ community on a night when they're expressing their. The pride in their very existence. These guys decided that they wanted to make it about them and deny them the opportunity to say, hey, we're. We're here, and we're human, and we. We deserve to be seen and appreciated for who we are, and that's okay. And these guys said, no, you don't. And now they're like, well, why is

[Jason]

everybody mad at us?

[Dan Bernstein]

Ryan Walker said, this is the. To the California Post, reprinted in the New York Post. He said, well, lots of bigot comments. It was expected none of the four pitchers, Landon Roop, J.T. brubaker, Sam Henches, and Ryan Walker, who protested in various forms, expected to draw this level of attention. You didn't. You wrote something on your hat, and now you're dismayed at the attention. This is rich. This is Brubaker. It was just one of those things where we've seen other baseball players do it. So we went along with it. How old are you? How old are you? Seriously? You're not a fifth grader on the playground.

[Jason]

Well, Scott did it, so everybody was doing it, and I did it too.

[Dan Bernstein]

Think how stupid this sounds. This is an adult. It was just one of those things where we've seen other baseball players do it, so we went along with it. Really?

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[Dan Bernstein]

So that was it? Was there any thinking involved? Wait, don't answer that. So they displayed their objections by inscribing versions of the Bible verse Genesis 9, 12, 16 on their caps alongside the rainbow logo. Sam Hentious opted out by wearing the Giant's normal black and orange hat. And then Brubaker said, well, not just to go along with it, but those are our beliefs. We felt there wasn't going to be much kickback on it. Players have done it in the past. It didn't seem like it was blown up that big. They weren't San Francisco players, dumbass. Listen to what Mike Kruco said. The guy who pitched for the Giants, the guy who's currently the legendary broadcaster on your team and on your flight talking about his gay son. And they still don't. They still don't get it.

[Jason]

Who players have done in the past.

[Dan Bernstein]

It didn't seem like it was blown up that big. The move got the attention of everyone from the MLB League office, which issued a warning to the vice president, with J.D. vance offering his support of the player's decision.

[Beth]

It's good company.

[Jason]

Good company.

[Dan Bernstein]

The public furor has seen the Giants issue an apology for any pain and anger their players actions caused. And then Walker said, I expected some of those negative comments, but did I expect it to get this big? Not necessarily. At the end of the day, we stood for what we believe in. All the love to those people. I enjoy playing for the city. I love playing for the Giants and at Oracle.

[Jason]

Nope, nope, nope.

[Dan Bernstein]

You don't get to say all the love to those people because you expressed the opposite feeling. And that's what they don't understand. Walker said despite the backlash, he would do it all again. He said, for me, it's more about being positive and getting people to read

[Jason]

the Bible and understand what it truly means.

[Dan Bernstein]

The arrogance in that to think that you understand

[Jason]

and.

[Dan Bernstein]

And other people don't. Who said that?

[Beth]

Who is that?

[Dan Bernstein]

Last comment from this was Ryan Walker.

[Beth]

Ryan Walker. I would love to know if Ryan Walker has ever in his MLB career talked openly and unsolicited with any reporter, anyone in the Giants about the Bible, if he's ever made any other comments about the Bible and wanting people to read the Bible and understand the Bible more. Like I, I really want to know if that's really part of who he is, part of his character.

[Dan Bernstein]

He said his faith was instilled in him growing up by his dad.

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[Beth]

And that's fine. That's great. You can have your faith.

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[Dan Bernstein]

And you know, it's really a good chance your dad's an asshole too. That doesn't like, like that's some get out of jail free.

[Jason]

I didn't know better.

[Dan Bernstein]

You're an adult. You are an adult. Be curious. Ask questions. Learn more. Talk to your teammates. How about talking to Mike Kruko after he came out and said, I've learned a lot about this wonderful and loving community through my son who's gay. Maybe. Maybe instead of just say, well, this is. He goes. At the end of the day, I just want this to be done and over with. We're here to play baseball. This is going on almost a week now. Just play ball. That's all I want to do.

[Beth]

Yeah, I mean, I want to know, does a guy like Ryan Walker, does he put Bible verses on his regular hat? Right.

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[Dan Bernstein]

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[Beth]

Bible verses on his shoes on a regular basis? Does he have scripture quotes hanging in his locker? Is he quoting scripture all the time? No, just this one night because they were celebrating pride night.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah. It's one night because he wants to be a shithead to gay people. And now he's. I just want it to be done and over with. We're here to play baseball. This is Brubaker. This is going on almost a week. Yeah. Because of a choice you made. And you know what other choice you can make? You can learn. You can also change your views if you want. You can. You can say, oh, why? Maybe ask why they're reacting this way, why they're so mad at you. Why do people think you're a.

[Jason]

Do you.

[Dan Bernstein]

Are you.

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[Dan Bernstein]

Do you care to know that if you're. Well, this sucks.

[Jason]

I just did this. Nobody's mad at me.

[Dan Bernstein]

Consequences. Here's the thing. You can say the great thing about having free speech, the great thing about being allowed to express these opinions.

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[Dan Bernstein]

Nobody. Nobody wants you to be unable to express your opinion. You can write on your hat. I'm a.

[Beth]

Well, I just want to know that if in their biblical teachings, they are. They are taught and they. They believe today and right now that homosexuality is a sin. I want to know what other sins do they protest? I want to know if they have ever put, like, the words DUI and scratched them off in, like, red marker, saying, we don't support people who. Who drive drunk. Like, what. What other sins, in their mind do they protest on a regular basis in baseball? By. By.

[Dan Bernstein]

But here's the difference. But the difference is drunk driving affects other people. Drunk driving is a crime.

[Beth]

Yeah, I'm not arguing with you, buddy. I. I get it. But. But in their mind, homosexuality is a sin. That's why they're standing against it. So do they.

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[Beth]

Do they call out teammates that cheat on their wives?

[Dan Bernstein]

No.

[Beth]

Or is that not important to them? Do they. Do they. Do they. I mean, I don't know. Are they opposed to people that shoplift and steal things from stores?

[Mark McCray]

I don't know.

[Beth]

Like, they make a protest about that.

[Dan Bernstein]

But again, those are.

[Beth]

I know the baseball doesn't celebrate those things, doesn't recognize those things. But why is it Major League Baseball chooses to recognize and honor and celebrate the gay community? Why? Because in society, gay people are treated as less than human. And you've just contributed to that with your hatred and your stupidity. And you try to hide it behind religion and the Bible and say, well, this is just what I believe in.

[Jason]

Great.

[Beth]

You can believe in that. You have that right.

[Dan Bernstein]

And other people can judge you believe that. Yes. And other people can make judgments about who you are and what the content of your character is by your choice. To decide to push back against someone simply saying, I'm proud to be who I am and I'm proud to love who I love. And if you have a problem with that, that's on you.

[Beth]

Right. And you don't have, though, to. To deface your uniform as a player, as an asset of a Major League baseball team.

[Dan Bernstein]

This has been. The entire week of. This has been an exercise by these Giants pitchers in stupidity, meanness, and cowardice and hatred. Hatred. Dumb, cowardly. Hateful. All of the above. Congratulations. Through every step of this. And now the whining.

[Jason]

I just want to play baseball.

[Dan Bernstein]

Then play baseball. Then play baseball and keep your hatred to yourself or ask some questions about your teammates or former teammates or broadcasters or other people in your lives and ask. And be more aware and care more about people rather than.

[Jason]

This is what my dad told me.

[Dan Bernstein]

Your dad taught you to be a bigot. You don't have to be a bigot anymore. You don't have to. I don't care what your dad taught you.

[Jason]

Well, it's just because what my dad taught me.

[Dan Bernstein]

All right. I don't like your dad either, if that's what he taught you. So. So what?

[Jason]

And you want. I just. I just want to play baseball.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's what it's all about. I want this to be over and done with. You chose to do it. It'll be over and done. When the people are done pounding your ass for being hateful, that's when it'll be over. You brought it on yourself for being an so there.

[Beth]

Yeah, I just. I just hate that they. They want to stand behind their Christian beliefs and the Bible when they're not actually going by with what the Bible fully teaches.

[Dan Bernstein]

It just.

[Beth]

It's disgusting.

[Jason]

It is.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's. It's awful. But, you know, I still don't think it's broken through.

[Jason]

I would do it all over again.

[Beth]

Oh, no, it. No, it's not going to break through. It's not going to break through until one of them comes out and says, yeah, I'm actually gay. Or. Yeah. I mean, it's because it's just like, why do you fight so hard against it?

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I'm not. I'm not quite sure what. What is in it for you there to do that. But if, you know, you made your choice and you wanted to make that statement and that that's okay, that's great.

[Beth]

You have that right. You have that freedom. So these are the consequences of it. So you have to accept that as well.

[Dan Bernstein]

No one's denying any of that.

[Beth]

Correct.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why don't we check in real quick with your. Do you have a rooting interest in the US Open at all at Shinnecock Hills?

[Beth]

I don't.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, I don't have.

[Beth]

They resume play.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

I know.

[Beth]

I saw that earlier today. They were delayed.

[Juan Naula]

Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

Sam Burns and Ludwig Oberg at the moment, as we record, are both two under. And this will be one of those Opens if, if you like an Open that involves players fighting on. On that line of even to slightly over par, to slightly under par, even is going to end up being a good score. If the wind is blowing and if it's real dry, if it rains, it might change some things. But the only thing I don't like to see through five holes, that Patrick Reed is one off the lead. And I'll just go with, you know, Kapka is one under two, but I'll go with anybody but Patrick Reed and I'll be okay. I prefer it not be Koepka. I prefer not be one of the live guys, but. And Rory McElroy would be my choice.

[Beth]

Yeah, he like you. You ask if I have a rooting interest. I think. I think now any tournament, it's always going to be Rory going into it. I just, I kind of like. I. I don't really have strong feelings about anyone else, you know, so it's more of guys I don't want to see win. But if I'm rooting for a guy, it would be Rory.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yes, I'm happy to see Ricky Fowler is even through five, and I don't.

[Beth]

Oh, yeah, and we've talked about him, too, at length. I would love to see him win

[Dan Bernstein]

something, but I don't see him as a threat to win. But it would be an unbelievable story. At least perform well.

[Beth]

It would. Yeah.

[Dan Bernstein]

It would be an incredible story if all of a sudden Rickie Fowler was able to find himself there. But when you see Oberg off to a two under start, he. That's a guy who might be in it for the. For the long haul here, but we shall see a big star studded field at maybe depending on weather conditions, the most difficult course. And they know how to do an open at Shinnecock. So every. All eyes will be on Scheffler as he goes for the career grand slam. And I think I might, depending on how this first round goes, might have a little a DBU pick for you, thanks to our friends at my bookie. A little bit later on tomorrow when we do that. And oh, I've got a top 10 list for you tomorrow. Very excited about that. It's.

[Beth]

It's. You gotta let me know what you landed on. I threw several ideas at you.

[Dan Bernstein]

It was the one I think you thought was a joke. The one regarding the coaches.

[Beth]

Oh, okay. That's where you're going. Okay.

[Dan Bernstein]

Yeah, but don't. Don't say it. No, no, I won't, I won't, I won't. Okay. Yeah, I actually.

[Beth]

I have. I have. No, I. I didn't. I know you well enough to know that it wasn't a joke. I just.

[Dan Bernstein]

Just didn't know that was gonna land. See, I never know from your responses because you.

[Jason]

You.

[Dan Bernstein]

You like being coy in your responses, so I never know because your sarcasm is so dry.

[Beth]

I. I do not know.

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, dude. Yes, that way.

[Beth]

That is unfair.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's a very good question, Daniel.

[Beth]

Well, the Daniel's always a giveaway. So, you know, if I say Daniel,

[Dan Bernstein]

if it's Daniel or Daniel son, that's. That's what I know that something. I have to revisit the previous text or something. Good idea, Daniel Son. That means bad idea. No, I know. Believe me, okay? And everyone right now has a World cup opinion. My huge World cup opinion is ranch dressing. Yes, ranch dressing is great, but don't let it ruin Europe. I don't want to see Europe awash in a sea of meanwhile. Wait, hold on. I figured it out. I've got it. I don't know why it took me so long to figure this out. We have the answer to the Washington D.C. reflecting Pool.

[Beth]

I just thought the same thing. The second when you said hold it, I figured it out. I knew exactly where you were going. And I agree wholeheartedly. We can all meet around the pool with our food, our snacks.

[Dan Bernstein]

No, the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool that right now is bright green with algae because of the number screwed up. And it's the story of the reflecting Pool is hysterical. Like, it's. It's. It's right out of the Marx Brothers. The way to solve this, we've. We have to fill the reflecting pool with edible grade ranch dressing. I agree. A constant supply of edible, usable, dippable ranch dressing. There's no double dipping allowed, but you should be able to be in Washington, D.C. have whatever you want. You could have a slice of pizza. You could have onion rings, wings, and just walk by and scoop it up.

[Beth]

And if you ever wanted to find Agent Orange, you know where he'd be?

[Dan Bernstein]

Oh, he'd be bathing in it.

[Beth]

Yes.

[Dan Bernstein]

And. And I might be right damn next to him, now that I think about it.

[Beth]

You, him, Jim Jordan.

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[Dan Bernstein]

We can. We could all be.

[Beth]

Yeah.

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Well.

[Dan Bernstein]

And look, if anything gets weird, I know Jim ain't gonna say anything, so it's cool.

[Beth]

I know that's quite the Mount Rushmore right there.

[Dan Bernstein]

What happened?

[Beth]

Agent Orange, John Smoltz and Jim Jordan.

[Jason]

Yep.

[Dan Bernstein]

What happens in this reflecting pool stays in this reflecting pool. And I know that Jim Jordan can keep a secret in that regard. So he. Every. We're all gonna. We're gonna jump into the ranch dressing and the reflecting pool and we're gonna party.

[Beth]

Yeah. Just keep all the underage girls away from them.

[Jason]

Oh, from.

[Dan Bernstein]

That's not Jim Jordan, is it? Agent Orange. Agent Orange. And. And Matt Gates, who's long gone, right? I. I think so. I think he's long.

[Beth]

Yeah. Well, that's a good book.

[Jason]

I know. It's.

[Dan Bernstein]

It's so good.

[Beth]

Oh, that. What I'm reading now, too. Squeeze Me is really good.

[Dan Bernstein]

I've not read, though.

[Beth]

It's really, really good.

[Jason]

Dude.

[Beth]

And that. Oh, that. The clip I sent you yesterday. How great was that?

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

It's just.

[Beth]

He's such. He's such a good writer.

[Dan Bernstein]

I know. And you. And you know when a graph is started, you're like, oh, this is. This is going to be fun. Going somewhere? Yes, going somewhere. Well, thanks.

[Jason]

Do your read.

[Beth]

We didn't do the. My book. You read?

[Dan Bernstein]

I didn't finish it.

[Beth]

No. Distressing.

[Dan Bernstein]

Well, everybody has a World cup opinion, and maybe you're now rooting for Scotland because they're. They're great. Or maybe I was watching Uzbekistan last night and they have a very telegenic young player whose name I forgot, but he was. He's. He's young and he scored a goal and he was posing for the cameras and showing off his high cheekbones, so maybe you're an Uzbekistan fan. Well, regardless, it makes the tournament fun. You can use DBU as your code when you sign up and you can claim an exclusive, my bookie offer the code DBU for Dan Bernstein unfiltered. You should be able to remember that the World cup turns every match into a conversation. My bookie lets you turn your opinion into action. Maybe there's just a team you want to back before the kickoff or you follow the match live and you're locked in and you think, oh, this is moved here. I'm going to make a different move. The World cup only comes around once every four years. Don't just watch it from the sidelines. Get in on the action at my Bookie must be 21 plus. Please gamble responsibly.

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[Dan Bernstein]

and that is today's Dan Bernstein unfiltered here on Three One, Two Sports. This is an important one. Everything we said sometimes, I always say sometimes we don't shy away from the significant things. And I think the, the when we have reached the policy conclusion that based on the reaction of those visiting this country, the best thing we can do for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool is fill it with ranch dressing. And I think the world will be a better place.

[Beth]

I think, you know, I'm doing today, I think I'm going to make ranch dressing. Maybe I'll do like a salad, make some ranch. I, I think I'm gonna do my chicken stroganoff again.

[Dan Bernstein]

Again? Twice in three days?

[Beth]

Yeah, I think I am. I can't stop thinking about it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Why don't you try a different protein?

[Beth]

Because I like this. Because there was was one little adjustment I want to make because I think I was almost there at a perfect dish. I want to try one slight change.

[Juan Naula]

What?

[Beth]

I'll tell you after I do it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Truffle oil.

[Beth]

I'll tell you after I do it.

[Dan Bernstein]

Okay. All right. I'm curious as to what it is because I saw the final product look good to me, but thank you for joining us. DBU on 312 sports.

[Beth]

Dan Bernstein unfiltered.

[Dan Bernstein]

Unfiltered on three. One, two sports.