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Dan Bernstein
Mom, can you tell me a story?
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Mom (Storyteller)
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Dan Bernstein
Was she brave?
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She was tired mostly. But she went to Carvana.com and found a great car at a great price. No secret treasure map required.
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Dan Bernstein
Did you have to fight a dragon?
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Dan Bernstein
Was it scary?
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Dan Bernstein
Did the car have a sunroof?
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It did, actually.
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Dan Bernstein
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Dan Bernstein
I mean if you're a Bears fan, you're thinking forward Progress. Come on 10. 219.
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Matt Abeticola
Forward progress A Chicago Bears podcast with Dan Bernstein and Matt abetic cola on 312Sports.
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Dan Bernstein
We give you progress on 312Sports today we are brought to you by the Chicago Stars making this a soccer filled summer in Evanston. Come to a match for family friendly pro sports on the lakefront. Get tickets especially for Sunday July 5th when they come back to Evanston. Chicago Stars.com tickets let me just say I don't believe Terry and Arnold's agent. Can I just start with that? I. I don't believe you because apparently Terry and Arnold who had what, a million dollars bond initially then was bonded out in large part because of a letter from Nick Saban and he immediately was released by the Detroit Lions for kidnapping and assault. Everything that he and his friends did together jumping a bunch of people who they thought took their stuff and now his agent says that they're waiting to hear back. There's three different teams he expects his client to join a new team within 30 days. He's been contacted by three other NFL clubs, according to Harvey Steinberg. Harvey, I don't believe you.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, I don't buy it. And I just. Again, we said this yesterday. If he was a player performing at a high level, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear that teams would be interested or even want to sign him. But he's not the Lions. As of last week. Dan Campbell was talking about what he needed to do to even have a shot to get back on the field. He's not at that level anymore, so. I don't buy it. I don't. I don't. I don't buy it. But, you know, Dan, given the NFL, Jesus Christ, it wouldn't surprise me. But I just. I don't buy it. I mean.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, the problem is, for what reason? Well, and Mike Florio pointed this out, that this was an official submission in a court document. This is in the written opposition to the prosecution's motion as to whether he should wear an ankle monitor while on home confinement. So it's possible a judge could call in Harvey Steinberg. It's his lawyer, not his agent. It's his lawyers. And call in Harvey Steinberg and say, okay, name the teams.
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Matt Abeticola
Who are the teams? Yep.
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Commercial Narrator 1
Yeah,
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Dan Bernstein
name the teams and tell me exactly where you are in the negotiations. Like, you can't just float something like that. So we'll see. Like, if you. The problem is that if you make a claim of a player on waivers, which he is, you're going to have to pay him in full. So either they're going to let him go through the waiver system, and then somebody would try to sign him. The league could still suspend him or put him on some kind of list. I just. I was shocked to see somebody say that, and certainly shocked to see it officially submitted in a response to a request for an ankle monitor and say, no, no, he can't have an ankle monitor. Three teams are interested. He's going to sign within 30 days. Well, okay, We. We will know if he has proof of that.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, I'd like to know who those three teams are.
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Dan Bernstein
I absolutely would as well.
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Matt Abeticola
All right. Caleb Williams had some comments for some of his critics, and he was on a podcast last week, pardon my take. And he was asked about his haters. The haters that he has. People that criticize his game. I know, but listen, I. I want to show his comments. You didn't. You didn't read what he said, right?
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Dan Bernstein
No, I just. I. All of these, like, nebulous straw man haters. And people on the Internet are saying,
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Matt Abeticola
I wanna, I wanna get your reaction to some of the things that he said because there's a couple things that stood out and I want to see if you're. If we're in the. If we're in the same. The same alignment. As far as what Caleb had to say on some things.
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Commercial Narrator 1
Okay.
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Matt Abeticola
He says I don't need them talking about his haters. But it, it always. But it's always a little extra belief in myself, a little extra confidence in myself. It's a little more delusion that I add to myself. It's all these things combined and it just throws a little bit of gas on the fire. And all you need is a little bit talking again about the haters, talking about his completion percentage. He says, I throw the ball away the most and try to keep us in advantageous positions because I know coach will go for it on fourth down. So I'm not fearful of only having three downs. I also know our ability to. And how explosive we are. So I'm not fearful of, like I said, throwing out of bounds, dirting it. I obviously scramble and people count my scramble seconds of holding the ball. But it's a bunch of different things that I can go into that. I know that people speak about. Stats aren't always something you should look at. You should look at how we win games. Again, continuing to talk about completion percentage, obviously I want to get that up, get that completion percentage up. But some of the things that I do on the field, it negatively impacts that. But we'll get it up this year just to shut everybody up and help everybody to understand.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, Let me take the first thing first.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Will you read something back to me?
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Matt Abeticola
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Read back the sentence. I didn't understand the way he used the word delusion.
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Matt Abeticola
He misspoke here a little bit. Yeah, that was one thing that, that, that jumped out as well. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Can you just read that? Like, delusion that I add to myself. What was it?
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Matt Abeticola
I don't need them. But it's always a little bit extra belief in myself, a little extra confidence in myself. It's a little more delusion that I add to myself. Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't. I don't understand that.
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Matt Abeticola
I don't understand it either. So I think he just either misspoke or it wasn't transcribed correctly.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Matt Abeticola
So I think. I think we just like, ignore that because I think he just misspoke on it now.
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Dan Bernstein
And the other thing, he's making a really good argument to ignore completion percentage, which we talked about in this space, which when we brought up the value of average net yards per attempt.
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Matt Abeticola
Correct. I also want to point out, because we did talk a lot about completion.
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Dan Bernstein
Excuse me. Adjusted. Adjusted.
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Matt Abeticola
Net yards, adjusted. We never criticized those areas of his game, those aspects of dirting the ball, throwing out of bounds, staying alive, keeping the drive going where they're at. We never criticize that. What we looked at, Dan, with Caleb Williams was good footing, good pocket protection, bad throw to open receiver.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Accuracy.
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Matt Abeticola
That's the areas that we criticized. And there were several opportunities where he had good footing, a good pocket, good protection and open receiver that he just threw a bad ball. That's what you and I talked about being better at as a quarterback. And I think that that's fair. Now, the overall complete percentage. He does make a really good point of why. Why you shouldn't look at it. But he also says this. I've looked up all the greatest guys from Peyton to Tom to Patrick, all these different guys, on average, most of them are 65 to 63 completion, 62 completion, which is surprising, at least to me. It was surprising because it was only 2% off, 3% off. So we'll get it up. We'll make everybody's heart feel warm and lovely. It will also help us in the long run of winning games, starting games better, starting games faster, doing all of those things.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. I mean, I think. I think he. I can't speak for what he's reading and what he's hearing. And this is what bothers me about this idea of the tell me who said something and I will respond to it if it's a real person, like who. Who said it? Overrated, Underrated. Like, the presumptions here are just. It's uncomfortable for me to respond to what he believes is some preponderance of belief as expressed by these media that include sock puppets and Russian and Chinese bots.
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Matt Abeticola
All right, well, there's two things that stood out to me when he says this, but we'll get this up. Talking about completion percentage this year, just to shut everybody up and help everybody to understand. I. I didn't like that because it's not your job to shut the stupid people up. Let the stupid people.
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Dan Bernstein
They're going to be stupid people. They're going to stay stupid. Nothing is going to stop.
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Matt Abeticola
Worry about. Don't worry about changing your game or doing something within the offense to shut the stupid people up. Like, don't throw, you know, shorter passes to get a Higher completion percentage if it's not part of what the game or what the defense.
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Dan Bernstein
No, he's not. I know he's not, but he's just giving.
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Matt Abeticola
But don't even worry yourself with that.
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Dan Bernstein
He's just giving an interviewer what he thinks is wanted because it was all doomed. When you start the questions that way.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Because he knows that that's. That's what we want. Oh, shut up. The haters. It's just lazy and it doesn't mean anything because they're stupid.
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Matt Abeticola
He also, when he says at the end they're starting games better, starting games faster, doing all of things. I agree with that. But that's not about complete percentage.
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Dan Bernstein
Correct.
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Matt Abeticola
That's other aspects of the offense that he needs to improve on, that they need to improve on and be better at and be more consistent with. That has nothing to do with complete percentage.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I think we're in full agreement on that. I just, I, I know that sometimes I think he's aware enough, and I always. I, I will praise a lot of, of professional athletes when they know they're. He's. I think he's playing along a little bit. I think he's, he's giving them whatever the tone of the interview is, whatever they're looking for. I, I think, you know, shut them up or, you know, do all this. I, I don't think there's anything. When he takes the practice field, I don't think that's in his mind.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. And I. And you're. You're probably correct on that. And I just, I just wish he just don't even, don't even address it. Don't even address it.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm not, I'm not. Just say this. I don't even know who you're talking about when it comes, like, if you put a tweet in front of him and say, this is what this supposed person said. What do you think?
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Matt Abeticola
Rather than take like an NFL critic, like an actual, like a former player and analyst and says, hey, so and so had this to say about your game.
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Dan Bernstein
Even better. Even better. Take your, Take his words. Say you said this about your improvement. You said this about this. How. Where are you in that? Like that. That's what you should be doing. Go. You can go back and look up. Rather than just, simply, you know, roll out of bed and start talking about the haters. Just say, you and your coach have disgust. Your coaches want that. That stuff is meaningful. That stuff has value. I just, I glaze over when I start hearing the other stuff. Talking about random people on the. It's like, you know, the same stuff I'll say to, you know, to Cody on Off the Ivy, when people are always online and, like, hearing a preponderance. I don't want to be around those people, which is why I don't, you know, I don't look at my Twitter notifications. I'm not interested.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
So I don't need that as part of the discussion. But that's just me. Sorry.
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Matt Abeticola
No, don't be sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Bill Barnwell had a little project here and this is a clever content idea for today. Talking about the World cup, okay. And the idea that all these players that we see in the World cup have day jobs. They all play professional soccer somewhere. They're not all playing in the highest leagues, but all over the world, they all have. They all have day jobs playing professional soccer. So he was saying, what if the NFL did something similar. Now we know that they're almost all Americans with occasional rare exception. So what he did to divide these rosters up and say what if they represented their homes, everyone in the NFL. So he said it, he wanted to do re states and or regions depending on total numbers for where did you play high school football? What would be what, what state, what region would you represent? So he put together 30 man lineups, each team. Two quarterbacks, a running back, three wideouts, a tight end, six offensive linemen and one bonus skill position player on defense, three edge, three tackles, two linebackers, six DBs, a kicker and a punter. Okay. Building rosters to play in September of 2026. So like right now, as far as injuries and all that, are you going to be ready? Etc. He said, I tried to lean toward making players eligible if they seem likely to be available for week one. It's where you played high school football. He relied on high school data gathered by Prof. Football Reference.com no trades allowed. Every area is represented. He said areas weren't able. Some areas couldn't form full competitive teams. There's no international team. No, you know, Canadians, Australians aren't included. Alaska and Hawaii are out. Within the domestic 48. There's not enough of a Pacific Northwest group to form a roster. And he said a team of players from Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, Wyoming doesn't have enough active NFL players. You couldn't have a 30 man roster of starting talent. So his teams are California, Northeast, which is Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, South Atlantic, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington D.C. florida and then southeast of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee. Then lastly, let's see, lastly is Southwest, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Wait, and then Texas, as I say,
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Matt Abeticola
Texas has to have.
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Dan Bernstein
Texas is its own.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
In Midwest is Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin. Okay, how many Chicago Bears do you think have made any one of these rosters?
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Matt Abeticola
Ooh, I love you're asking because it's extremely low.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm just,
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Matt Abeticola
I would say.
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Dan Bernstein
It's hard because you don't know where people played high school football.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, I don't. I'll just. I'll just say 10.
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Dan Bernstein
The answer is four.
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Matt Abeticola
Oh, I was gonna say five first. Fuck.
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Dan Bernstein
And now I will ask you, can you name them?
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Matt Abeticola
There's four.
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Dan Bernstein
There are four Bears. Because even think about it too, because it's possible that you're a really good Bear, but if you're from Florida, you gotta be a great player to make that team.
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Matt Abeticola
All right, here's your four. Caleb Williams.
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Dan Bernstein
Nope.
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Matt Abeticola
What?
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Commercial Narrator 1
Nope.
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Dan Bernstein
Caleb Williams is not on a team.
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Matt Abeticola
Well, that seems ridiculous.
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Dan Bernstein
Do you want to know who the quarterbacks are and then, and then you'll tell me if it sounds ridiculous?
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Matt Abeticola
Sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. The quarterbacks from California are Josh Allen and Jaden Daniels. And Caleb is from Washington D.C. right?
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. This is where high school ball. Not Cal. Not Right.
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Dan Bernstein
High school ball. South Atlantic. Oh, I'm sorry, I lied. I lied. He is on it.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay, so he's five.
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Dan Bernstein
I blew it.
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Matt Abeticola
That's all right. So I was.
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Dan Bernstein
I blew it. Yeah. Drake May and Caleb Williams.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay, yeah. So say camper Caleb. Not the.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm sorry.
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Matt Abeticola
That's okay.
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Dan Bernstein
I missed that one. That's my bad. That's my bad. That's South Atlantic.
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Matt Abeticola
So Caleb's one. How about let's go with the best receiver in Colson Loveland.
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Dan Bernstein
No, Because remember they, they couldn't put an. He's from Idaho. Oh, so they couldn't put anybody together. He doesn't he doesn't have a team. He's a man without a country.
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Matt Abeticola
All right, did DeAndre Swift make it?
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Dan Bernstein
He did not. Okay, I'll give you the teams. One made it for California, one made it for New England, the Northeast. One made it for South Atlantic, and one made it for Florida.
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Matt Abeticola
Did Jalen Johnson make it?
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Dan Bernstein
Jalen Johnson is on the California team.
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Commercial Narrator 3
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Did.
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Matt Abeticola
Did Luther Burden make it?
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Dan Bernstein
Nope.
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Matt Abeticola
Did Cole Comet make it? Nope. How about Joe Tooney?
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Dan Bernstein
Nope. You thought you had that one? I thought for sure Joe Tunney would make.
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Matt Abeticola
All right, give me. Give me the other three, then.
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Dan Bernstein
The other three. Jonah Jackson guard.
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Matt Abeticola
All right.
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Dan Bernstein
On Northeast, Darnell Wright on South Atlantic.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
And the Florida kicker is Cairo Santos.
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Matt Abeticola
So where did you know? Idaho.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, so he's. He's out because there's no. There was no Idaho representation.
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Matt Abeticola
What about Luther Burden? Where did he play high school ball?
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Dan Bernstein
He hasn't really done enough yet.
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Matt Abeticola
Dude, this is some incredible numbers, though. This is out. As far as putting him in pretty. Pretty select company. Where did Luther Burden play ball? Luther burden.
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Dan Bernstein
St. Louis.
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Matt Abeticola
St. Louis. Okay, so he'd be a Midwest guy. Right. So who are the receivers in the Midwest?
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Dan Bernstein
All right, let me. Let me click back to it. Hold on.
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Matt Abeticola
Sorry.
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Dan Bernstein
No, no, I got it. Your Midwest receivers. I have to scroll. Southwest Texas. Midwest wide receivers. Terry McLaurin, Jameson Williams and Alec Pierce.
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Matt Abeticola
All right.
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Dan Bernstein
He's not ahead of any of those guys.
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Matt Abeticola
No, he's not.
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Dan Bernstein
Not yet. He might be this year.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. After the season, it might be.
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Dan Bernstein
That's. This is kind of all setting up because of the trade of DJ Moore. It's. They're. They're. They're handing him stardom this season if he wants to take it.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. All right, so five Bears made it. Okay. Interesting. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know what that says. I just thought it's just a fun little exercise.
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Matt Abeticola
And of course, here it is, July 2nd in the NFL season.
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Dan Bernstein
So now we mentioned D.J. moore, too.
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Matt Abeticola
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
He found himself in the news.
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Matt Abeticola
I. I love. Like what. How did you feel about this story?
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Dan Bernstein
Kind of sad.
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Matt Abeticola
Oh, really? Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
How did you feel?
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Matt Abeticola
So when I. When I realized what it. Like. Okay, my first. Okay, read the story. Then I'll tell you what my thoughts were.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, I'll read you the PFT version here. DJ Moore hasn't wasted any time endearing himself to fans in Buffalo. Moore was recently at a mall in the Buffalo suburbs when he spotted a T shirt store selling shirt jerseys. We know them as jerseys with his name and number on Them. Moore walked into the store without identifying himself, paid $1,200 to buy all 27 of the shirts in stock, and asked the manager to give them away for free to the first 27 fans who came in looking for a DJ Moore shirt. Scott Marshall, assistant manager at T Shirt University, told WKBW that he didn't recognize Moore and was confused by the unusual request to buy 27 shirts and leave them at the store for others.
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Matt Abeticola
And how much he pay for him? 1700?
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Dan Bernstein
1200.
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Matt Abeticola
1200.
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Commercial Narrator 3
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
He said, I'm like, what? Do you know the guy or work for him? And he's like, yeah, I work for him. Marshall said, he's kind of joking around, so he buys them. He goes, I'm going to leave them all here. If anybody comes and they want one, just tell him DJ Moore bought it for them. And then he walks out the door and he pokes his head back in and goes, yeah, it's me. And he just walks away. And it was a very nice thing that he did.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay. And then they also put a special tag inside that said, you know, this shirt was purchased by DJ Moore. They put a tag in there.
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Dan Bernstein
So let people know.
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Matt Abeticola
But. So, okay. So at first I thought, oh, this is. This is pretty cool. Then my. My second thought was an image that came into my brain of him at a mall handing out T shirts to people and people being like, oh, okay. So I didn't. I didn't realize that. It was like someone went into the store to go buy the T shirt, and then it was like, oh, no. Hey, we're just gonna give it to you because DJ Moore already paid for it. I envision him trying to hand them out and people being like, I'm. I'm good. I'm. What? Okay, I'll take it. That's what I first thought. I was like, oh, that's not good.
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Dan Bernstein
Hey, who wants a dj? Who wants a free. Who wants a free DJ Moore shirt? I'll take one, I guess.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
So if you're giving them away, I guess I could. I can give it to.
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Matt Abeticola
So when the story made the news locally, did people then go to that store and saying, I can get myself a free shirt, or do they. Did they all get given out? Were they all given away?
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Dan Bernstein
It says before it made the news, when the gesture was revealed publicly, only two of the 27 shirts remained in stock.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay, so 25.
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Dan Bernstein
So 25 shirts.
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Matt Abeticola
People went in there to get a shirt, and they were right, but I have to pay for it.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't think they really went. Come on.
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Matt Abeticola
Or do you think they went in to get something else and someone was like, hey, this shirt free?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
You know, that's what it was. You know that 25 people didn't happen to come in looking for a DJ Moore jersey? Come on. Okay, if you stood there, if you went right now to Dick's Sporting Goods and pick a name. If you stood there next to a, you know, the Colston Loveland jerseys or the. Even the Caleb Williams, like, the most popular players. And. And these, like, these, like. How many people with the intent. How many people woke up in the morning in Buffalo, New York, the metro area of what, a million? How many people or families said woke up today? What are we doing today? Well, one thing I know we're doing is we are heading to T Shirt University and we are buying a DJ Moore jersey, whatever it costs. You know, that's like, hey, by the way.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
While you're here, I know you're looking for your Sabers stuff, but if you want a free DJ Moore, he was in here earlier. He paid for him, so feel free.
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Commercial Narrator 2
Or.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, or maybe people just walk in not looking for anything, but they're just killing time and looking at shirts. Whatever.
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Dan Bernstein
How's it going?
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Matt Abeticola
Hey, do you want a shirt? You know, when they're walking out without purse purchasing anything, you want to take one of these free shirts?
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Dan Bernstein
That's what I mean. It's like people at the auto show, you know, people the bag at the auto show, you know, they've got a bag filled with stress balls and. And, like, cheap sunglasses and fans. And I'm looking at the T Shirt University in Buffalo.
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Matt Abeticola
So 1200 T paid, right? And 27 shirts. So 40, 45 bucks. That's a lot.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. T Shirt University is inside the Walden Galleria Mall in Cheek. In Cheektowaga. Yeah, it's at I90 and. And Walden, and it's right near a Dick Sporting Goods. So did he go right in there? I think I would imagine he had to. Come on, dj. I hope he was working the whole area, buying all the shirts, buying up all the kids. There's a Dick Sporting Goods right there. You better believe that. That's another big number for him. Why?
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Matt Abeticola
Why was he going into T Shirt University? Do you think he went in to see if his own shirt was there? Why. Why would he be going into a
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Dan Bernstein
T shirt shop, taking his kids to the mall, maybe, like anybody. Anybody would go into a T shirt shop. He just happens to be DJ Moore. There happens to be his T shirt in there.
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Matt Abeticola
I like that. The guy didn't recognize him.
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Dan Bernstein
I know. I've seen. Have you ever done that? See, it's hard with you because you're. You're recognizable. Where, you know, you get in a conversation with somebody and it was like, oh, yeah, I listen sports. I don't like that Bernstein guy. I. I don't like it. I'm in a situation like, I don't like him either. That guy. He's a.
- [27:09]
Matt Abeticola
He's a pain in the ass. I've never experienced that. Yeah, you haven't. I have not. Where people don't know they're talking about me. Know. And knowing. Not knowing they're talking to me.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes.
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Matt Abeticola
I've never experienced.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, I. I have. More than once.
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Matt Abeticola
That's funny.
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Dan Bernstein
Yep. I'm like, I'm totally with you. That guy pisses me off. He's a real asshole. Right. There's like, I hate that guy. Like you hate that guy. Think how I feel. I hate that guy more than you do.
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Matt Abeticola
Oh, that's funny.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I. I agree. I always agree. If I ever hear that, like, oh, yeah, that guy sucks.
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Matt Abeticola
Speaking of shirt, what is that shirt you have on?
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't ask you earlier. This was a gift.
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Matt Abeticola
Wild. Wild Aces.
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Dan Bernstein
This was part of the Wild Asses.
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Matt Abeticola
What is it?
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Dan Bernstein
No, it's a fan controlled football league. You remember that? The short lived indoor fan control. And we had. And one of the owners of the Wild Aces was some famous Internet guy that.
- [27:59]
Matt Abeticola
So it is wild A. I still can't see the. All I see is AC. There we go. Wild Aces.
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Dan Bernstein
I forgot the guy's name, but Layla said he was really famous and. Okay. People knew who he was. And I said, okay, we'll have him on. It'll be fun. And we got Wild Aces T shirts. It's a nice shirt.
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Matt Abeticola
Is it? Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And it's a. It's a lucky fishing shirt, too. I don't know. Whatever for. Usually when I wear it.
- [28:22]
Matt Abeticola
I.
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Dan Bernstein
Have a good day.
- [28:23]
Matt Abeticola
Okay.
- [28:23]
Dan Bernstein
I don't believe in any of that stuff though.
- [28:25]
Matt Abeticola
Right.
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Dan Bernstein
Course not. You know that. Can I. Can I do one more story?
- [28:31]
Matt Abeticola
Only if it involves food or Brian Flores is swarming d.
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Dan Bernstein
No, it.
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Matt Abeticola
It.
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Dan Bernstein
It involves food.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, did they take the story down?
- [28:47]
Matt Abeticola
Oh, did they really?
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Dan Bernstein
Damn it. It was there.
- [28:52]
Matt Abeticola
Google it. Google it to find it.
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Dan Bernstein
It was the least story.
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Matt Abeticola
This will be our. Our. The final segment of this show is always about food. Is this about something you ate? Is it about a recipe?
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Dan Bernstein
All right. Okay, here it is. I found It.
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Commercial Narrator 3
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
The Great American tailgate challenge is underway. Ooh.
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Matt Abeticola
It's underway now, but there's no football going on, apparently.
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Dan Bernstein
The Great American tailgate challenge is underway. USA Today and the Pro Football hall of Fame are teaming up for a nationwide celebration of the foods that define football football culture across all 32 NFL cities.
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Matt Abeticola
Oh, boy.
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Dan Bernstein
And they want Chicagoans to get in and vote for America's favorite tailgating food. Each team enters with one signature dish. And for the Chicago Bears, it says here, nothing captures the city's flavor better than
- [29:56]
Matt Abeticola
what. So there's. So there's foods at the vote for tailgate Hot dog.
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Dan Bernstein
Signature Chicago hot dog.
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Matt Abeticola
Okay.
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Dan Bernstein
Drag through the garden topped with neon relish, sport peppers, celery salt, and absolutely no ketchup. It's a Soldier Field staple and the flavor that fuels generations of Bears fans. Have you ever seen somebody actually making a Chicago dog at a tailgate?
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Matt Abeticola
I have not.
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Dan Bernstein
I've never.
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Matt Abeticola
No.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay. Just making sure that that was my question. I've seen hot dogs. I've seen brats. A lot of brats. A lot of sausages.
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Matt Abeticola
Yes. A lot of sausages.
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Dan Bernstein
But the. The Chicago dog is a hot dog stand thing. You go to a hot dog stand to get a Chicago dog.
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Commercial Narrator 2
Who.
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Dan Bernstein
Who goes to a tailgate and is bringing the celery salt peppers. Who is taking the time at a tailgate? You're throwing a football around. You're. You're moving things on the grill. You're. And it's. First of all, you're grilling. A Chicago dog is from a steam table.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
A Chicago dog isn't grilled, although they're better grilled.
- [31:16]
Matt Abeticola
But.
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Dan Bernstein
But I've never thought of it as a tailgate food, let alone the tailgate food. If you really are telling the truth, I would. I'd probably venture there are way more sort of unadorned brats in at a Chicago tailgate than there are anything else. Burgers and brats.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. I say burgers. Burgers more than dogs, for sure.
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. It's a baseball thing maybe, but it's a hot dog stand thing.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
You go to Wiener's Circle, you want a Chicago dog, you go to Wiener's Circle.
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Matt Abeticola
Right? Yeah. That doesn't work for. Yeah, I don't. I don't know of many tailgating situations where people are doing the Chicago dog ever.
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Dan Bernstein
I've never seen it. And then it says. It says bragging rights are on the line. I can't brag about something that I've never really seen at the place. You say it exists. Where I should vote for it and brag about it. What am I doing?
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Matt Abeticola
And I.
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Dan Bernstein
Look, I don't have a lot of tailgate experience. I used to walk through the south lot when I was a reporter. There were always fans there. Hey, how's it going? Hey, Bert. You suck, Bernstein. You suck. But people would invite me over, hey, you want to taste of this? I'm making this. And they're really fancy things. Really. One guy was doing these perfectly folded goat cheese and prosciutto omelets. I'm like, what the hell, man? These are awesome. Yeah. Like, all kinds of really cool stuff. I've never seen somebody. Hey. Coming over a fully dressed Chicago dog. Where are you making it?
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Matt Abeticola
I'm making it in my garden.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I'm making it in my car. We always have celery salt in my car. It comes with the car. All right.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, I don't. Yeah, that's. That's a miss right there.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, Okay.
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Matt Abeticola
I just.
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Dan Bernstein
I didn't. I didn't know if I was being overly critical.
- [33:07]
Matt Abeticola
No, you weren't. You weren't. This may surprise you. You were. You were not being Bernstein on this. This is.
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Dan Bernstein
You're.
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Matt Abeticola
You were correct on this, because it just felt wrong. I'm like, yeah, bragging rights.
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Dan Bernstein
The Chicago. No, it's not wrong. That's the wrong. That would be like having, like, deep dish pizza for your tailgate, right? What?
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah, you get, like, a doordash delivery to your parking lot for a deep dish pizza.
- [33:32]
Dan Bernstein
You could probably grill a frozen one, theoretically.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah. Yeah. No, they. They missed it there. No, you nailed it. You nailed it. But. And it also was successful because now I want a Chicago dog, so.
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Dan Bernstein
Well, the thing is, you can go get one. I'm sure in Liberty.
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Matt Abeticola
I'm gonna go get one, but I'm not gonna. I think I'm gonna actually. I think I'm gonna go to the store, get all the ingredients, and then do them in the backyard and make a Chicago dog on the grill. Right.
- [33:56]
Dan Bernstein
Because as. As Shane Reardon would say, that's just easier.
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Matt Abeticola
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Just go ahead and do that. And it's. I don't know, the whole bragging rights over local food. A tailgate, whatever you got is fine.
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Matt Abeticola
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Whatever you have. You know, I'm agree with you.
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Matt Abeticola
And I mean, maybe. I'm sure people will comment or email, but I. I would think brats, sausages, and. And hamburgers way more than hot dogs. Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
You know what we're gonna get, though? And I.
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Matt Abeticola
And generally. And what, what do you do with. I mean, it's a lot for kids, too. Like, if you're throwing dogs on, it's because you got kids around and they
- [34:36]
Dan Bernstein
don't want sport peppers.
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Matt Abeticola
No, they. They want. They eat them plain because they're weird and they're kids.
- [34:41]
Dan Bernstein
Kids are weird? Yes. Or they put ketchup on and that's fine.
- [34:44]
Matt Abeticola
And that's fine, too. Yes. I'm all for it.
- [34:46]
Dan Bernstein
Of course it's fine. But you know that email's coming in.
- [34:49]
Matt Abeticola
Yes, it is.
- [34:50]
Dan Bernstein
Who do you think you are? I've been tailgating that we've had season tickets since the Decatur Staleys and we've
- [34:57]
Matt Abeticola
done nothing but Chicago dogs.
- [34:58]
Dan Bernstein
We are. Well, I'm known. I'm Chicago hot dog Steve.
- [35:04]
Matt Abeticola
We sent you an industrial sized container of cele salt that he has for his truck.
- [35:09]
Dan Bernstein
He pushes a button and it dispenses the exact correct amount of celery salt. Yeah.
- [35:15]
Matt Abeticola
All right. Well, you've done it. You've made me hungrier. So that's, that's accomplished for forward progress.
- [35:20]
Dan Bernstein
Right. We've achieved our, our desired goal that we set out every single time. And that will be forward progress for
- [35:28]
Matt Abeticola
the fact that I would like to hear about soccer.
- [35:33]
Dan Bernstein
Ah, yes. That's a great call on your part. I knew it. And I could, I could see it in your face that you wanted to hear about soccer. That's why they pay you the big bucks, because you need something to do. Maybe on Sunday you want to put together the perfect long holiday weekend. Well, if you have someone in your home, maybe a young soccer player that was looking for the opportunity to spend a lovely day at gorgeous Martin Stadium in Evanston, Illinois. Well, July 5th, the Chicago Stars are at that home stadium against Utah Royals fc. And the Chicago Stars are celebrating a summer of soccer on the north side. You don't want to miss it. It's that easy to get to. Stadium tickets start at $19. It's professional women's soccer and it is this accessible to you right now. You say, well, why bring the kids? What do they get? There's other things for them to do. A kid's zone and yard games and a mini pitch. And they can see role models play up close. Mallory Swanson, Alyssa Nayer. Those are US Olympians who play for Chicago Stars right on the lakefront at Evanston. Summer soccer doesn't get better than this. Get your tickets now, starting at 19 bucks@chicagostars.com tickets. And that is today's forward progress. A Chicago Bears and NFL podcast here on 3one2 Sports brought to you by the Chicago Stars, making this a soccer filled summer in Evanston. Come to a match family friendly pro sports at the lakefront. Get tickets@chicagostars.com tickets. Have a great long weekend for progress has stopped 10 219, 219
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Matt Abeticola
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