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Welcome in to the

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CHEO. It

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is opening day. We

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are live here at Ballpark Pub

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just outside guaranteed right field 514

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West Pershing Road. Let's go. In

0:55

Bridge Park, great location. I just

0:57

wolfed down an amazing buffalo chicken

0:59

sandwich. We got Miller Lite, we

1:01

got Lightning Kugels. We are ready

1:03

to go. Oh, how do we feel

1:06

about this Cubs idiot that's up here though? Let's

1:10

go. Let's go. Quiet

1:12

little kid. Quiet little kid.

1:15

Okay. First of all, don't talk to my kid like that.

1:18

Second, get out of here. No,

1:20

no, no. No. I'm

1:22

getting booted right off the gate. Come on now.

1:25

We want Nick. We want

1:27

Nick. We want Nick. We

1:29

want Nick. We want Nick.

1:34

Okay, we'll leave the little stage, but see

1:37

you later. It was a little bit. For

1:39

the podcasters listening later, Adam

1:41

Ho, Mark Carmen, it was Greg Rex Jr.

1:43

He decided to show up to a white

1:45

Sox party wearing Cubs gear. So he's out.

1:47

Nicholas Moriano is in. Nick!

1:50

Nick! It's messed up, Greg. Come on now.

1:53

Don't worry. He'll be back off you. Yeah, we

1:55

will. Let's loyalists die hearts. We'll let Greg. We

1:57

are also a part of. Hey,

1:59

we're less. 150 subscribers

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away from 53,000. Please

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hit the like and subscribe buttons. We

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appreciate you. We also appreciate everybody signing up to

2:09

be a diehard. We'll hit up our new diehards

2:11

a little bit later on in the show. Um,

2:15

obviously we are the bear show. We're going to

2:17

talk some football here. We're going to have some

2:19

opening day conversation as well coming up right after

2:22

us. So is the CSGO white sock? Yeah. So

2:24

let's go. Let's go. Sean. Let's go in

2:26

case you say stocks fans in here wondering why we're

2:29

going to talk football for a little bit. Sock show

2:31

is coming up. That's right. Cubs fans are Packer fans.

2:34

That's a little aggressive.

2:38

The white socks are zero and zero

2:40

today. It's the one day all year

2:42

I'm going to get to talk shit

2:44

and I'm going to do it. I

2:47

think you have to take advantage. Let me

2:49

just say this too. And I've said this

2:51

before, I'd like to say this again. I

2:53

know that white socks morale is very low

2:55

right now. I know your morale with

2:57

the product and everything that's happening is low and

3:01

it's a little bit of a tough stuff, but I am telling you and I've

3:03

said this before, I'm going to say it again. I believe

3:05

in Chris gets the dude is a

3:07

smart calculated guy. He has

3:10

a good head on his shoulders. He's a realistic

3:12

dude. I honestly, I think that Chris gets has

3:14

a great chance of being successful. I

3:16

know that's white socks fans that might fall on

3:18

some deaf ears right now, but I actually think

3:20

he knows what he's doing. Well, I think there's

3:23

no reason it gets too worked up when it's

3:25

your zero and zero. Nothing. If you haven't lost

3:27

yet, so why not be

3:29

it's opening date. It's all about

3:31

being hopeful for whatever may happen

3:33

in this 2024 season. So

3:35

I'm not going to get mad about something that

3:37

hasn't happened yet. There's plenty of time to do

3:39

that as we kind of go through the season.

3:41

Here are questions about nine innings shutout baseball. I

3:43

am hopeful that we go one and oh today

3:45

and then it'll be the highlight of the season.

3:48

That's the hope. That's the list. That's as much

3:50

hope as I have. It's a highlight to be

3:52

right here and doing, doing

3:54

the podcast and then opening day going one

3:56

to know and they're right here. this

4:01

feels like it's Super Bowl Thursday yeah

4:03

well whatever but speaking of that is

4:05

opening day better than week one of

4:07

the NFL season no absolutely no I'm

4:09

sorry no and I think

4:11

there's an argument to be made though and like the

4:13

maybe like the romanticism of

4:16

it okay like opening day is

4:18

there's something special about it oh

4:22

wow there comes that damn the

4:26

back streaming gets better you

4:28

actually James went to

4:31

go security with go get oh yeah

4:33

literally beating

4:36

up Greg brag that was amazing I like I'll

4:38

say this the beauty of baseball whether

4:40

your team is good or bad or in the

4:42

middle you do get the

4:44

company of them for the next six

4:47

months it's every single day minus 18

4:49

days so there's a there's a comfort to the

4:52

baseball season plus there's summer is right around the

4:54

corner all the things now we

4:56

started in what is it March the 28th that's

4:58

insane so there's that that's better

5:00

like you're together every

5:02

day companionship friends baseball

5:04

hot dogs beer Nick

5:06

Adam Greg Kevin Jake

5:08

James Shawn her Sarah

5:11

keep going to stop

5:13

I just got yeah

5:17

the heart attack okay um

5:21

well one of the things we want to talk about

5:23

obviously hope right now we probably

5:25

couldn't be talking about two more

5:28

different levels of hopes hope right

5:30

now than the Bears and the White Sox that's

5:33

true yeah they are polar opposite ends

5:35

right now this the hope spectrum I

5:37

guess so my question is

5:40

as because opening day is all about

5:42

hope usually right you're just it's a

5:44

new season got nothing else

5:47

to cling to but some hope well

5:49

obviously with the Bears we talked about

5:51

this every day hope is there's a

5:53

lot of hope right hoping there's there's

5:56

a lot of optimism which

5:58

Chicago franchise is the most hope

6:01

right now. Pull up to

6:03

a pole at the ballpark. Most

6:06

Chicago right now. I

6:08

think there's a great show in the nineties,

6:10

by the way, here's the number one is the yell

6:13

for the bears. If you think the bears are the team

6:15

that has the most hope in all of Chicago right now,

6:17

let me get a,

6:20

there it is. It has to be there. It is,

6:23

you know, coming off of, uh, the season that they had

6:25

in 2023, getting the

6:27

number one overall pick Keenan Allen,

6:29

DJ Moore, Caleb, like, who's

6:33

even number two? Well, I think

6:35

two is the debate. And I

6:37

think that you would probably try to

6:39

argue that the Cubs are

6:41

the next closest to like having a chance

6:44

to win. But I

6:46

think I would sit here and say that the

6:49

best athlete in this city right now that's on a

6:51

team is Connor. Yeah. And

6:54

we were at that game where, you know,

6:56

Connor Burdard went off and scored what, two,

6:58

two goals and just, I mean, against the

7:00

yeah. And by the way, Luis Robert would

7:02

be in the conversation for sure. But

7:05

with what Connor Burdard's done so quickly,

7:07

so early, uh, with

7:09

Luis Robert is a little bit more up and down. And

7:11

then finally he's, you know, he's going to say, he's what

7:13

we got right now for hope, but

7:15

I think with where Connor Burdard is, and you

7:18

just know that when you want, when you win

7:20

a championship, regardless of what sport it is, you

7:22

need, you know, you need a superstar like that,

7:24

which is why the bears are hoping that's Caleb

7:26

Williams, but. I

7:29

would say that if you were, if you were to look

7:31

at winning a Super Bowl, winning

7:34

the world series, winning an NBA championship,

7:36

winning the Stanley Cup, the

7:38

white Sox have

7:40

Robert, the black Hawks

7:43

have Burdard, which is up from there.

7:45

And the bears have Caleb or will

7:47

have Caleb. The bulls

7:49

have to go down before they can come up.

7:51

Right. I think you can make an argument. The

7:53

bulls belong lower than the white Sox. I think

7:55

that's the least. The white Sox are trying to

7:58

reset. Bulls are just like, no, we're. just gonna

8:00

hang on the middle forever. Right, right. I think

8:02

the Bulls are actually in the worst position. The

8:04

White Sox at least admitted who they are right

8:06

now. We are at the bottom. We have, we

8:08

have one young superstar and we're trying to build

8:11

it back up. So they at least acknowledging your

8:14

reality is a, is a positive. Are

8:16

they gonna build around him or are they gonna flip him

8:18

too? Well, who knows? But yeah, that's a good point. But

8:20

the other side of it is like if you look at

8:22

the Cubs, yes, capable of maybe

8:24

making the playoffs. I see a lot of people are

8:26

picking them there. They're, most people think they're

8:28

gonna win somewhere between 83 and 88 games.

8:32

But you can't look at the Cubs right now and

8:34

think that there's any chance that that team is winning

8:36

a World Series. They don't have the high-end talent. Guys,

8:38

what do we think about the Tigers? We just got

8:40

some Tigers fans walking in. They're playing the White Sox

8:42

today. At least they're playing. Come on. At

8:44

least they're playing. Come on. That's

8:46

a booz. It's

8:48

a strong duck. Good. It's

8:52

a strong duck. That's

8:54

fair. I mean,

8:56

it does. But that was

8:58

just just fact. That was

9:00

my childhood. I was gonna defend them though

9:02

because at least they're playing in this game today. You're,

9:05

I don't know what you're doing. Aren't you playing in

9:07

Texas or something? How do you know who to come

9:09

play today? You're right. They

9:13

play the Rangers. Hope they lose. By the way, the South Side had been

9:15

just walked in and that guy might hurt Rick Rex. He's

9:18

certainly capable of it. I hope

9:21

so. Go make friends with the South

9:23

Side hit, man. The South Side. Break

9:26

the numbers. Oh, we'll get Braggs a-shaking hand. So are we agreeing Bears are

9:28

on top? They have to

9:30

be. I mean, there's no... I'd love to

9:32

hear our Hawks guys. But... Argue

9:36

here. But I would put the Hawks too. They have

9:38

the two in my books. I'd put... We're

9:42

talking about Cubs 3, White Sox 4, Bulls Best. Yeah. Again,

9:47

we're making the argument. Not who's closest to going in the playoffs.

9:49

Because if you were gonna say that, then I would say the

9:51

Cubs. Sure. We're

9:54

talking about winning the whole thing.

9:57

I think the Bears are on the best position, followed by the Hawks. Followed

10:00

by Now

10:08

I would I would imagine some Cubs fans would be like

10:10

well once you get in you have a chance So

10:12

maybe that's what they're hoping for but you

10:15

don't it's sometimes you

10:17

do One year with

10:19

83 wins It's

10:22

not a national did it if

10:24

you have the high-end talent that can

10:26

get hot. Yes. Yeah I just

10:28

don't see the Cubs like that way me. I don't know if Cody and or

10:31

they're on the right path Once

10:33

they keep adding talent then then you can

10:35

put them back. I mean, they're their minor

10:37

league system is strong So there you go.

10:39

So you're building up a nice foundation, but

10:41

I still don't see I don't see Chris

10:44

Bryan I don't see Anthony Rizzo. I don't

10:46

see Jake Arietta. I don't see John Lester

10:48

all Those are the guys

10:50

that it took for to get over the hump. I mean

10:52

you need you need high-end talent time dudes

10:55

DJ more Jeanette Allen

10:58

Montes wet Montes wet. Hopefully

11:00

Caleb. I mean, that's what

11:02

you need Yeah, big-time

11:04

dudes with big-time talent. Yeah, so there's

11:06

no debate at number one. It's the

11:09

Bears and then like

11:13

Assuming Caleb is what everyone's hopes Caleb is going

11:15

to be oh, yes Except for the 10% who

11:17

are still holding on that the Bears somehow Caleb doesn't

11:19

want to come to the Bears Stephen We can't see

11:22

the chat Are they? What's

11:24

the chat saying? Are they in agreement that it's bears?

11:27

I know this is a bear show They probably are

11:29

but can you see it the chat at

11:31

all like who they're I can pull

11:33

up the good what the other debates are I

11:36

mean, I mean everyone's pretty much saying the Bears are

11:39

number one. Okay, there's a lot of white socks Hey

11:41

in here. There's some called just a little

11:43

bit less club taste and I

11:46

think most of the chat is saying that the Blackhawks

11:48

are the number two team. I agree Yeah, just the

11:50

kind of dart of how to be dark is I

11:52

need to do Nick and I went to that game

11:54

It was just like like we're not hockey dudes. Yeah,

11:56

just so obvious. He was so much better than everyone

11:58

else on the ice different gear like

12:01

I don't know how to explain it but

12:03

like when he goes it's crazy

12:05

to watch how fast that guy like even just

12:07

watching him when he didn't have the puck like

12:09

if you just watched him it was

12:11

it was wild so I mean

12:14

that that dude's amazing I

12:16

love it it's fine I'm excited about the

12:18

Hawks I

12:21

am okay once

12:24

we went to that game they were on a little win streak I

12:26

don't know what they're doing right now because

12:29

I haven't heard you have any hot club in a while

12:32

so well they haven't been good 15 really

12:35

I mean they're still that good but what was that time

12:37

you were in a podcast in listen

12:40

to the show that you hope

12:42

when Kevin Ryan got signed

12:44

is when we were there

12:46

you Nick and I

12:49

went to the game a couple weeks ago

12:51

you know that okay great you knew that

12:53

we had this conversation I bought 200 level

12:55

tickets we had a great day and that

12:58

was Sunday that was lovely okay I take

13:00

it back I just spent two minutes talking

13:02

about how good Connor radar looked at

13:05

what a car moment that was an

13:07

excellent car moment but you know you have me focused over

13:10

here yeah I'm gonna do something else here

13:13

too yeah okay I got you I got

13:15

you oh yeah here yes I got you

13:17

ho um we do have speaking of other

13:19

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13:21

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13:23

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13:26

also the GM of the Bears too because

13:29

you were there I was doing it there

13:32

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16:15

that we both woke up in Orlando

16:17

yesterday and ended

16:19

up in Chicago the difference

16:21

is he went

16:24

to Baton Rouge to

16:27

LSU Pro Day so

16:30

started the morning in Orlando flew

16:32

to Baton Rouge LSU Pro

16:34

Day Jaden Daniels Malik

16:36

neighbors Brian Thomas Jr. a lot

16:38

of a lot of great talent

16:40

there and then as I'm

16:43

laying in bed I see the Bulls tweet that

16:46

he's at the court side of the Bulls game.

16:49

You know why he was there right?

16:51

It's quite a day. You know why

16:53

that happened. Why? Because Mark hooked him up

16:55

with tickets. Oh yeah you got courtside seats. That's now

16:58

why it happened but what happened

17:00

was I actually believe

17:02

this to be 3% true. Great.

17:05

He went

17:08

and told his son that

17:10

he was trading Justin and that

17:13

he would pay it back what do you what do you

17:15

want and he gave him options and one

17:17

of the options was I'll take you to a Bulls

17:19

game in courtside seats. That's what the

17:21

dad did for the son who went after he

17:23

traded his favorite player. Why would he want that?

17:27

Are you kidding? Courtside NBA? Come on man.

17:29

I mean I would go courtside. I

17:33

honestly think that's on the table of

17:35

what happened because if you consider that he was

17:38

traveling on the day what it was gonna be is I think

17:40

the family was all there right? That was when they were all

17:42

in the picture. It looked like it looks

17:45

like I'm just impressed with

17:47

the stamina there. It

17:49

is impressed with the stamina but he does

17:51

look a little tired. Yeah very serious. The

17:54

Bulls have the tweet out there and I

17:58

think it might have been a little bit of a payback for the It's a

18:01

valuable that's good parenting right there. Well regardless. I'm

18:03

just impressed cuz I barely made it to four

18:05

o'clock Yeah,

18:07

well you're soft and Pulses that

18:10

they got easier. Yeah, but I had to meet

18:12

Nick to give him some of his equipment back

18:14

And I had to take a nap and And

18:17

then my when my alarm went off to go

18:20

meet Nick I was like I was seriously

18:22

half I was probably half asleep when I

18:24

saw you okay I mean like I was

18:27

just like a long day and I couldn't

18:29

imagine going to a Bulls game to in

18:31

the same day So I'm impressed guys just

18:33

building a Super Bowl championship caliber football team

18:37

Flying all over the world and why are you are

18:39

going both winter here? Well because

18:41

I'm on your Twitter Nick because you put

18:43

out a tweet yesterday about Brian Thomas jr.

18:45

So I wanted to read exactly because

18:48

Part of yesterday was Brian Thomas jr And

18:51

Nick was retweeting Jordan Reed who wrote about Brian Thomas

18:53

jr And it catches out on a vertical down the

18:55

right side like the pro day today that made me

18:58

all fall out on my seat And

19:00

then Nicholas more an O Brian Thomas jr. So

19:02

damn good I just filled out my evaluation on

19:04

the CH Joe bears 100 database which you can

19:06

get if you're a diehard But

19:09

why don't you wax poetic about Brian Thomas jr?

19:12

Look if you're looking for a guy that

19:15

can line up outside or in the

19:17

spot is a vertical threat downfield has Soft

19:20

hands a good route runner. That's

19:22

Brian Thomas jr Like you top off

19:24

dude when you watch you watch the tape against

19:26

Ole Miss that man Dominated

19:29

dominated from that slot fade on three

19:31

touchdown passes the guy knows how to

19:33

set up corners To get open and

19:35

has soft hands and knows how to

19:37

work in condensed spaces like this is

19:39

deep wide receiver draft I know everybody's

19:42

enamored with Marvin Harrison jr. Malik neighbors

19:44

Roma doomsday But there's a lot of

19:46

guys in the strap that can impact

19:48

a team immediately Brian

19:50

Thomas jr. Is one of those players, so I

19:52

really like that What what

19:54

he showed on tape and you can see

19:56

the evaluation that Adam wrote on him what I

19:58

wrote on him and all the other players that are working

20:01

on our bears 100 to become a diehard but

20:03

Brian Tom, Jr. is damn good. Actually

20:06

we have to challenge somebody

20:08

right now because I believe we have

20:10

a streak right now that could be broken

20:12

in a bad way. Oh no. But I

20:14

don't think we have a new diehard today

20:17

and that's that might be the first

20:19

time this entire year. It's emotional. I

20:21

mean there's been days where we've had

20:23

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21:36

me let me ask you this Malik

21:38

neighbors slips to nine. Oh

21:42

you take you taking them?

21:44

That would be tough to

21:46

pass up. He does everything

21:48

you want. He's incredible. He's really really good.

21:50

The only reason I hesitate is because there

21:53

there is some off the field stuff that

21:55

has to be vetted here and I

21:57

just go back to Jalen Carter last year. And

22:00

if the Bears weren't

22:03

willing to take jail in Carter, are they going

22:05

to be willing to take Malik neighbors? I mean,

22:07

it's the same type of situation. There's no denying

22:09

the talent. Now

22:12

maybe you make an argument that because you have the number

22:14

one pick too, it gives you a little bit more of

22:16

a flexibility to take more of a chance, whereas like last

22:19

year they had to get that pick right. But I think

22:21

that's a flawed argument and I'm not sure that's how Ryan

22:23

Poles looks at it. I think you got to hit, you

22:25

got to look at it like every single one of these

22:27

picks is extremely

22:29

important to get right. And you're not just

22:31

taking a chance because you already have your

22:33

number one pick at the same time. Malik

22:36

neighbors was arrested

22:38

on Bourbon Street carrying a gun

22:40

that was not authorized, that he

22:42

was not registered. And

22:44

apparently that would be legal now. Apparently

22:47

it'd be legal now, which shouldn't be,

22:49

but it would be. Okay, we don't

22:51

need to go down there. He's 20 years old. It's

22:54

a lot different than what happened with Jalen. It's a lot different

22:56

than what happened with Jalen. A

22:58

big difference. It

23:01

is and it isn't because it's the same. It's the

23:03

same. It's not the potential crime

23:05

of quote unquote quotations crime because it doesn't

23:07

really seem like it was that, you know,

23:10

you know what, it wasn't really a crime, but he

23:13

did get charged. I believe I think might've

23:15

been dropped. It's more so the

23:17

decision making. Why? It's the same

23:19

thing with Jalen Carter. It's not really

23:22

that like, it's not the result. It's like

23:24

the, the action of bringing like the gun in

23:26

the first place, right? It's the

23:28

maturity level. It's the decision making. It's why

23:30

are you racing? You know, why are you

23:32

drag racing? Somebody

23:35

in the middle of the night. Do you really need

23:37

to be bringing a gun on Bourbon Street when you're a star

23:39

wide receiver at LSU? You know, it's like, it's, it's,

23:41

that's the type of conversations that the bears

23:44

and all these other teams are going to have about. And

23:46

to me, it's not

23:48

about, it's not so much what

23:52

they did again, quote unquote wrong or whatever

23:54

it's what you trust them going forward with

23:56

all the money they're about to get. And

23:59

the. fame and being the Chicago Bear and

24:01

in the spotlight with Kayla Williams. What did

24:04

you learn? What did you take out of

24:06

it? What was the

24:08

growth moment for you in this entire experience?

24:10

Where are you at now? We're

24:13

about to give you, you're about to get paid a

24:15

ton of money and have a world that you're

24:18

stepping into that you have no idea

24:21

exactly how crazy it's going to be. Well, I'll say

24:23

this, and I don't think this is how it's going

24:25

to play out because I think one of the two

24:27

of them will definitely be gone, if not both. But

24:29

if it came down to Malik Nabors and Roma Dunes,

24:31

they both being available for some reason, I'm taking Roma

24:33

Dunes every single time because everything you

24:36

hear about him, the characters off the

24:38

charts, the work ethic, everything, like there's

24:40

no distractions and Malik

24:42

Nabors talent is probably a slightly higher,

24:44

but I'm going to take

24:47

that safer pick in Roma Dunes. And part of

24:49

this conversation too has to be, you're

24:51

bringing this guy into a wide receiver room that

24:53

already has DJ Moore. Thank you, Alan. That's

24:56

why I've been following Brian Thomas Jr. too,

24:59

because like for what you're going to be asking that kid

25:01

to do as a rookie, he's your number

25:03

three man. It's

25:06

a great position to bring a rookie wide

25:08

receiver in. But also, if you do bring

25:10

a guy like Malik Nabors in there, that's

25:12

two guys that you can learn from, two

25:14

veterans in that locker room that have done

25:16

it right ever since they entered the league.

25:18

So you would put them in a good

25:20

environment to just be a pro. So

25:23

I could see that both ways Roma Dunes,

25:25

they have Malik Nabors and if they were

25:27

to go whichever route, like I wouldn't fault

25:29

them for it, but there's reasons why you

25:31

would take either one of those guys, but

25:33

Roma Dunes, they doesn't have any red flags

25:35

and would probably would fall under that

25:37

blue chip kind of player that they would

25:39

look to want to get at number. Well,

25:41

it's also interesting. Caleb Williams seems to have

25:44

a pretty decent relationship with Malik Nabors

25:46

already. Yeah. Well,

25:50

I don't think, at least for me, Malik Nabors did

25:52

not cancel himself out as a Bears draft candidate at

25:54

all. I was in an opposite

25:57

place of Jalen Carter last year. Maybe I was wrong. But

26:01

you go drag racing and

26:03

which that part of it is

26:05

not a great decision. But

26:08

if somebody ends up two

26:10

people end up dead and you run from

26:12

it and try to escape without anybody knowing

26:14

that you were there. That to

26:16

me that scared me on the character issue. That's

26:18

not a guy owning up to what happened. Whereas

26:21

neighbors is okay. He had a situation. He got

26:23

caught. What did you learn? It feels different to

26:25

me. Not a

26:27

great choice. But it happened again. What? 20

26:29

years old. I mean, when I was 20, it wasn't great. It was

26:31

not. It was not great. You

26:37

were probably a professional 20 hoe. Were

26:39

you a professional hoe to 20? I

26:43

mean, Madison was like stumbling down

26:45

whatever you stumbled on. No, no,

26:47

no, no. I'm

26:52

not. I don't think I was a professional.

26:54

I was maybe a professional drinker. But

26:57

your college. Come on now. I

27:00

mean, we were all there. What I'm

27:02

going to do is solid beer bong off

27:04

the second floor of a tailgating house on

27:07

on Bowen court. We had some Wisconsin. Yeah.

27:09

That's what you mean by professional. No, we

27:11

have the beer bongs going. We had other

27:13

things going. It was the thing. No.

27:16

And that's what that's the same conversation we had with

27:18

Jalen Carter last year. And I don't want to be

27:20

called a hypocrite here because I was sitting here banging the

27:22

table like I still take them. And

27:25

I probably would still take the chance on the

27:27

league. I think one difference here, though, is there

27:30

was one Jalen Carter at a key

27:33

position. The bears needed. That's a good point.

27:35

There's a lot. There's not only these three

27:37

top wide receivers. There's also Brian Thomas right

27:39

after that. And then there might be three

27:42

rounds worth of wide receivers after that. So

27:45

there's a huge difference there in terms

27:47

of positional need and supply and demand at

27:49

the position. So this is a

27:51

hard thing. And it's totally unbearable. I'm about to

27:53

say. But that to me is

27:55

the next level for Ryan Paul. playmaker

28:01

that really helps transform

28:03

the offense. If you

28:05

can if you do that, if Poles

28:07

can find his Pukka Natura or

28:10

his Romeo

28:12

Dobbs, whoever, that

28:16

would really transform where

28:18

the Bears are at and what the and

28:20

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we want to bring Ben in here to explain what we

30:40

do but we might have we have another interesting option that

30:43

just walked in here. Oh my god. I

30:45

mean I think we got to bring him on. All right.

30:47

Don't you think? I'm going to bounce. Yeah. I

30:49

mean we if he's willing to do it. Hey

30:54

Shane. Hey

30:57

Shane. Come

31:00

here buddy. Come on. Come on. Come

31:02

on. Come on. Come on buddy. Come

31:04

on. Come on. Yeah. Let's make a

31:07

bit just uncomfortable. Right now.

31:09

You're breaking rules but we love you for doing

31:11

it. Yeah. What do you what do you want?

31:13

What do you want to say to me? Well

31:15

you're you're I just want you to talk about

31:17

the CHGO softball championship and how upset you were.

31:19

Very. That that that we took you down and

31:21

I know that you know we didn't we we

31:23

brought in ringers we did everything we could to

31:25

take you down. You're upset about it. No. So

31:27

that's exactly what I was going to say. Can't

31:29

you call yourselves the CHGO softball team if

31:31

not even half of your team is

31:33

comprised of the CHGO employees? When 100

31:36

percent of my team was comprised of

31:38

radio all year. Try to recruit Charlie

31:40

Tilson who played in the majors. How

31:42

to try recruit Charlie Tilson. Charlie Tilson

31:44

came to me and wanted to play

31:46

and then wimped out. Oh

31:49

wouldn't even start on the Odyssey team. Oh yes

31:52

he would. Oh yes he would. Oh yes he

31:54

would. He wouldn't say.

31:56

Okay. Can we explain who's talking. Yes please. Go

31:58

ahead. See the game. Right now

32:00

Shane Reardon is here from six every the

32:02

score. Oh, I don't need that. But thank

32:04

you have come on We're we're

32:07

here probably our biggest supporter at CHO

32:09

Shane Shane Reardon We

32:13

appreciate you No,

32:15

okay. No, sure. Well, that was before you got there

32:18

and then they brought you and I was like, all

32:20

right there said Wow,

32:22

I was there from day one but maybe

32:24

day three. It's okay. Uh We

32:27

were you saw we all used to be

32:29

at sub EGN together. Yeah, that's true story

32:31

long time ago. Hey now Yeah No,

32:37

we well we I don't know what we call it we were

32:39

at the game remember the game 87 7 I still don't know

32:42

What's going on? How are you guys doing?

32:44

How was you guys got to go out

32:46

to the combine you went out to the

32:48

pro days? How is that? We're just trying

32:50

to provide content for everybody get

32:52

you guys You know the videos and

32:54

and we appreciate all the support in

32:57

giving us in the mix here. Thank

32:59

you. Yep I was like and

33:01

yeah, go no, I was just gonna say in

33:03

longtime White Sox fans. Sure. Sure. Ready to go

33:06

I'm calm. No, are you guys are you not

33:08

done? I mean Don't

33:10

be done. I'm gonna put the hat on today. Don't

33:13

be done. No, no today, but I'm not going today.

33:15

I Might still

33:17

go today. Okay, he is going today.

33:19

Yeah, brother son But we're

33:21

planning on going but my thing on

33:23

this is it's not a declaration that I'm

33:26

done Yeah, it's that I just feel thought

33:28

it's the apathy. So I'm not like Isn't

33:31

Lawrence like selling his White Sox hats? I'm like

33:33

brought his hats to our remote today He's like

33:36

giving them away to people. Okay, see I'm not

33:38

going that far I just don't really care because

33:40

they're making me not care Okay So you think

33:42

like I compared on our show to a relationship

33:44

you feel like you hit the point of indifference

33:46

where you don't hate them You don't love them,

33:49

but nothing can really change to bring you back

33:51

or is Jerry we face enough change to

33:53

bring you back Cuz that's kind of where I'm oh, that's

33:55

why I am. I think if Jerry's gone if they

33:58

sell the team back a lot

34:00

of whiskey in that jake. I

34:02

gotta show you. He might have ruined me

34:05

too. Let me ask you this.

34:08

Yeah Greg. How did you get your ass

34:10

whooped in softball by this old man over

34:12

here? Better than this. He didn't do any

34:14

of the ass whooping. I can tell you

34:16

that right now. Wow.

34:19

It's all the non-CH2 and 40. Wait,

34:21

wait. Hold on. Hold on. Hold

34:24

on. First it back, ripped one right

34:26

at him, caught it, cut. Next one,

34:28

ripped it a little bit higher off your fingertips in the

34:30

left field. Yeah, yeah. Let's call it what it is. That's your

34:32

one hit for the season. One hit for

34:35

the season. Let's put some

34:37

respect on my 50-year-old ass. That's

34:40

not one hit for the season right there. I love the freedom

34:42

that you guys have. We can talk

34:44

about softball here. We're not allowed to do that at

34:46

the store. We're not allowed to talk about the media

34:48

scene because people don't care, right? So I love being

34:50

here, being able to talk about it with you guys.

34:52

Because it's weird. We care. We

34:54

got the trophy. I brought in a world championship. I had to

34:57

do it the way I had to do it. I

35:00

begged people to play. Can I stop begging? And we won

35:02

it all. You guys are good. It'll

35:04

be fun. I tried to watch them to retire.

35:06

We tried to retire. Lawrence retired. All right. Well,

35:09

did he really? And I'll say this.

35:11

I didn't think Lo-Ho could play. Lo-Ho was

35:13

solid. Solid. That's a lot for you

35:15

guys. He's a very good defender too. You

35:19

guys enjoy the rest of your show. Thank you for having us.

35:21

Thanks, brother. Appreciate you. All right.

35:23

Thank you for coming by. We'll be able

35:25

to show our standing's been

35:27

on here. It's nice and shame to stop by and sit

35:29

down. Brex, come

35:31

in here before we get Ben in here. We

35:34

got to explain the myths. Yeah, we do have this myth

35:36

situation. Greg? Greg?

35:39

What? What

35:41

have you been doing? No. Am

35:43

I? I'm here. Are you going

35:45

to steal my drink? Yes, I am. I need

35:47

it. Sorry. Well,

35:49

you just steal a drink? I did. Oh,

35:52

are you dying? I'm dying. Are

35:54

you? The I'll

36:00

take Miller like Miller like

36:02

a crown and diet a criminal or

36:04

just stole mine Miller like Ladies

36:07

and gentlemen, I have a breaking

36:09

news. The white Sox have officially

36:11

been eliminated from Sorry

36:23

to be made a hundred times this morning on the

36:25

internet That

36:30

was funny. I know it's funny. You

36:32

know what? I got a lot of respect from

36:34

the Sox fans. They're out here Of

36:43

this group, it's honestly disappointing credit to them.

36:45

They're still fun. Yeah. All right, get out

36:47

here I want to get Ben in here.

36:50

So we leave We're

36:54

giving away mitts you could come back Okay, then might have

36:56

to do some business go get Ben get him in here.

36:58

Do you have you met Ben? Where

37:01

are you at? Come up here? Ben Heisler. Let's

37:03

talk about This

37:08

guy is this is this is this family

37:10

this is H&R block. This is a great

37:13

football fairs fans You're gonna love this segment

37:15

right now. Ben knows more about football than

37:18

everybody on the show except for home I

37:21

want to go sit down. There is This

37:26

is Chicago royalty. Yeah, I

37:28

know Yeah,

37:30

I'm back to the brim already

37:35

We're three hours. You talk about what you're doing

37:37

here. Can you what's going on? You work great

37:39

in our block? You're a superstar. Do we got

37:41

myths? I come from the

37:43

world of media into the world of taxes. It's

37:46

a very natural transition. Yeah,

37:48

that's right. Yes No, it's

37:50

exciting just because we knew that Chicago's

37:52

like a really important market for us

37:54

and naturally being Chicago

37:57

and I was able to come in and

37:59

all throughout the course of the next

38:01

several days, including over

38:04

a guaranteed rate field. There's going

38:06

to be a whole odd opportunity for

38:08

Chicagoans to get a lucky

38:11

section mitt. So

38:14

if you are at the game today after

38:16

you're hanging out with the CHDO guys, you

38:20

might find yourself having an opportunity to get

38:22

a niche bar block mitt. You're also handing

38:24

out tickets that provide 25% off tax credits.

38:28

In addition, opening day, uh, access right

38:30

around the corner. Don't you have you filed

38:32

yet? Are you, I have not, I'm always

38:35

four months wait. Okay. Are

38:37

you really? I am every year. I filed the intention.

38:39

Here we go. We

38:42

want you on time. Hope I would imagine

38:44

you probably filed like January 1st. Yeah, no.

38:46

As soon as soon as bear season was

38:48

over, I imagine. I

38:51

honestly haven't done it yet, but I will say

38:53

I've never been late. That's

38:55

great. I've never been late. And my birthday is April 16th. So,

38:58

you know, you gotta, I have a legitimate

39:01

excuse for the record. I always get some

39:03

of the papers because I'm in some terrible

39:05

partnership. It's just a billion dollars. I get

39:07

it. I get it. So I have to

39:09

be like, okay, perfectly fair. If you do

39:12

have everything in on time, or maybe you're

39:14

trying to figure out how to, you know,

39:16

extend it if you need it. The nice

39:18

part is that for Chicago is it's hrblock.com

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backslash Chicago, 25%

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39:28

can also get 25% off if you go

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and you file this 10,000 hrblock location. We've all

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around the country, a ton in Chicago. So it's

39:34

just nice to be able to go and celebrate

39:36

baseball and also try to help out a lot

39:38

of Chicagoans along the way. Gift attacks is done.

39:40

Use hrblock. Let me do the Ben. And let

39:42

me, Ben, nobody

39:44

knows the NFL like

39:46

you. Nobody knows the gambling markets more

39:48

like you. The Bears over

39:50

under right now is eight and a half. Ben,

39:55

that's an obvious over with. Spanks be a little bit

39:57

nervous. Doesn't it feel like an obvious over every

40:00

year. No. Last

40:02

year was when it was like five and a half,

40:04

we're like, oh, those are over. And then they won

40:06

four last year was seven and a half. Which was

40:08

obvious. You can get it at six and a half

40:10

at the beginning. And then, you know,

40:12

there was the fields movement that pushed it basically

40:15

up to seven, seven and a half. And

40:17

then they won seven. And then they won seven.

40:19

That's how they get you very much every time.

40:22

The eight and a half. And I'm curious to

40:24

get your guys perspective here feels a little too

40:26

pricey right now. I think there's a lot of

40:28

hype, a lot of hype sometimes goes into

40:30

the public betting market. There's going

40:32

to be a jump, even with

40:35

a really good defense and an

40:37

upgraded quarterback, you're still talking about

40:39

eight and a half in an improved division. Now that

40:41

you're considering what Green Bay is able to do, maybe

40:43

we should take a step back. I

40:45

would rather jump on the Bears mid

40:48

season, maybe if they're off to a

40:50

slow start as Caleb or whoever they

40:52

are in the baby gets a little

40:54

bit more comfortable, familiar, and the system

40:57

starts to gel with Shane Waldron. Now

40:59

I think you're looking at a better position of value.

41:01

Maybe you're able to get them to take it off.

41:05

So your point last year, they start 0 and

41:07

4. Now if that happens again, and I don't

41:10

think that will happen again, but if it does, if it didn't

41:12

have again, they would have major

41:15

problems. Maddie, that GQ first might

41:17

be out. But that

41:19

number had to have come down to like what? Four

41:22

and a half at that point or something like that?

41:24

When they were 0 and 4? When they were

41:26

0 and 4 and then there was talks about what

41:28

more selling they might have to do. I think

41:31

it probably got down to maybe five, five and

41:33

a half. Right. So if it went

41:35

over then, you got to seven,

41:37

then you would have gotten it. So hold on a

41:39

second. In your expert gambling opinion, do

41:41

you think it's better to bet games ahead of time

41:43

or are you more of a bet during the game?

41:46

Bet games ahead of time or bet season

41:48

futures as they update and re-apply? If

41:51

you're for all our die-hard CHG Openers people who

41:54

are trying to like bet the NFL, do

41:57

you bet the bear game before it's going out or do

41:59

you? Are you more of a

42:01

first quarter, second quarter? I just think a lot

42:03

of it is dependent on what number comes out

42:05

at the time. And that my, I'm just my

42:07

favorite time to bet on games this week too,

42:10

because that's a blatant overreaction

42:12

to the markets when we play. Think

42:15

about all the teams that just got off to a terrible

42:17

start. Oh, and one, oh, and two, then all of a

42:19

sudden it shifts. There's some positive

42:21

regression being there's some teams that get off

42:23

to a great start that end up falling

42:26

flat. More often than not, it shows early

42:28

with two, three, four, five, six, where

42:30

I think you're getting a much better lead on the market

42:32

and a better number. Two years ago, I made a lot

42:34

of money on the Bengals when they were kind of floundering

42:37

early and I bet them the wind and division

42:40

and that really paid off because the number

42:42

came, you know, it was a great

42:44

number to bet it at. Last year I tried to

42:47

do the same thing, but then Joe Burrow got heard

42:49

that otherwise I think I would have hit it again.

42:51

Last year, there were some people that were jumping on

42:53

Cincinnati before Burrow got hurt at one point. They were

42:55

down to plus five 50 to win that division and

42:57

all it takes is when I bet it,

43:00

right? Yeah. It's you got it at the top of

43:02

the value. Just it's football. There's injuries. It's going to

43:04

happen. You have a great fairs bet right now that

43:06

you like off the top of your head. Putting

43:09

a little sign on. Yeah,

43:11

I'll probably go for on wins, which is that

43:13

which we just dispelled. But I like that talk.

43:15

I mean, there's, there's so much positive energy in

43:17

this room right now that I don't want to

43:19

be the guy that comes in. So for an

43:21

opening day, I'll be very curious.

43:23

To see what the numbers are for DJ

43:25

Moore and for Tina Allen. I

43:27

feel like those numbers, especially for Alan are going

43:29

to be a bit inflated. I agree. But you're

43:32

dealing with two things. You're dealing with a 32

43:34

year old wide receiver and that's usually the time

43:36

where they fall off a place. Not expecting that

43:38

in and out of career year. And the

43:40

reliability is going to be there for Taylor,

43:42

whoever they take. But

43:45

there's just going to be more guys around. You're

43:47

still going to have DJ. You're still going to

43:49

have some that Swift is going to be expected

43:51

to have more passes out of the backfield. We

43:53

still have over on the roster. Do you like

43:55

that Simon? Yeah. And Bruce Swift. Yeah. I do

43:57

surprise at a lot of the negative reaction. him

44:00

around it. And we're talking about three, four

44:02

years ago, when he was drafted by Detroit, there

44:05

was talk about what he could do as he passed the chair.

44:07

It was like what people said, like, oh,

44:09

Montgomery can catch the ball, but there are

44:12

very different runs. He became in Philadelphia, a

44:14

guy that could go to the tackles that

44:16

can be on the field for three downs.

44:18

I think in Chicago, because of the rotation

44:20

that they have, still with Russian Johnson and

44:23

the next to Herbert Sticks around, you're

44:25

going to be able to do something very

44:28

trade. And Walter is a guy that will use that

44:30

back for three downs that he had with kind of

44:32

Walker. I like the signing. I just,

44:34

it's a durability issue, but I think the bears are prepared

44:36

for durability at that spot. I think when you

44:39

kind of see this offense come together the

44:41

way it has since they had a key to now

44:43

and now they're solidified on Taylor Williams, remember they hadn't

44:45

traded Justin at that point when they signed the Andre

44:47

Swift. It's like, so I look at it like what's

44:50

$7 million a year for a running back like that?

44:52

Just kind of complete the puzzle. I like

44:54

that. And that's the going rate

44:56

of the market. I had no problem with

44:58

that. What do you think they should do at nine? It feels

45:02

selfish to take a receiver.

45:04

It does. It feels like

45:06

it's just a richness good

45:09

at that position. Really? It

45:11

does. Even though that's sort of the nature of

45:14

the league, you have really quality positions and it

45:16

is a position in the strap. No problem

45:19

with you sitting there. It

45:21

would be very difficult to fan and we would

45:23

just rush to the podium to go and get

45:25

it. Like he feels like he's that dude and

45:27

I love everything that he put out of the

45:29

combine and the type of perception that he has.

45:31

I know Michael Penix

45:33

from this time in Indiana, there's a

45:36

dynamic connection there. My guess will be

45:38

either offensive line or pass rush because

45:40

I feel like they'll get the most

45:43

bang for their buck at nine or they'll

45:45

trade that. Their guy, I

45:47

would feel like has to be there firmly,

45:51

firmly ahead of the mark for

45:54

Ryan to make that move. They want

45:56

to be able to capitalize. I agree with that.

46:00

that if they use the knife, they

46:02

feel like they're getting phenomenal value. Because

46:05

I do think somebody will want to come up, but maybe they

46:07

won't. In that case, that would

46:09

be the worst case scenario for the guys out there. Nobody

46:11

wants to come up, they're going to take whoever they're going

46:13

to take. Let me ask you this, because I feel like

46:15

the wild card in all of this right now is J.J.

46:17

McCarthy. At

46:20

one point, J.J. McCarthy was like, okay, maybe he makes sense

46:22

for Minnesota number 11. And now

46:24

the lines move for J.J. McCarthy

46:26

to be just under Jalen Daniels

46:29

as the number two pick. I don't know

46:31

whether or not that's just like some people trying

46:33

to move the line, getting better value on

46:35

Drake Bay or anybody else. Oh boy, here

46:38

it comes. Kansas

46:40

City has tremendous food, they don't have this. Benlinson

46:42

Kansas City now. They do not have this. The

46:44

other one, this is great. Kansas City does have

46:47

great food though, right? You're

46:49

not getting a pizza like this. No, you're not. I

46:52

fully accepted that. Go

46:54

ahead, buddy. I'm going to have something a little bit. Okay,

46:57

I'll have it talking. Keep going, Ben. Where

47:01

do you see it as far as like, who's going to

47:03

be that guy that makes everybody react

47:05

as opposed to just following the natural norm?

47:08

Yeah, I mean, I think you're,

47:11

it starts always with the quarterbacks. And yeah, I

47:14

think that is a lingering question right now. Are

47:16

you going to have the top four picks

47:18

be quarterbacks? Where

47:20

is J.J. McCarthy falling? The

47:23

Tom Pelocero said the other day that the East

47:25

talk people would think that Washington might take them

47:27

at two. Right. Just wild.

47:29

Yeah, I, if I guess right now,

47:32

I feel like Jaden Daniels goes two

47:34

and maybe Drake May goes three to

47:36

the Patriots. Who knows?

47:38

But it is a big wild card.

47:40

I just, it does feel like there's

47:42

momentum towards McCarthy ending up

47:44

in the top 10. I'll say this though. And I said

47:46

it last year and it's

47:48

almost always the case. One

47:51

of the quarterbacks unexpectedly, Paul. And

47:55

last year, Will Leavitt, we fell completely out.

47:57

We were forgettly at an hour before the

47:59

draft. We're talking about Will Levison the top

48:01

10. He went the second round and

48:04

I don't know who that's gonna be this

48:06

year for me personally, I'm not as high

48:08

on Jayden Daniels as others are and Maybe

48:11

he's the one that falls. I don't know but one

48:14

of them usually does and there is a chance that

48:16

maybe the CJ McCarthy hype is a little Too

48:19

much high right and then he ends up going I do

48:21

agree with the Minnesota thing I don't think he goes

48:23

past Minnesota whether that's they stay put at their pick

48:25

or they move off I don't either I think if

48:27

you're looking for that Total if you're looking for an

48:30

over-under-under a number of quarterbacks going in the first round

48:32

four and a half feels right I

48:34

think Bo Nicks will be that guy Whether or

48:36

not a team wants to move up the first round try and go get

48:38

him or if he's the guy that falls I

48:40

love panic. No, I do.

48:42

Yeah, I like panics a lot more than

48:44

Bo Nicks. I do too Yeah, I have

48:47

concerns and maybe a kid bias is

48:49

coming to play for watching him in

48:51

Indiana and all the season ending injury

48:53

studies, but when he figured like if

48:56

you're talking about like leadership intangibles

49:00

The ability to be able to process

49:02

quickly panic has turned into that guy

49:05

Kaitlyn divorce system at Washington was very

49:07

much set up for him to be

49:09

able to process and the deep

49:11

balls beautiful I just do have concerns

49:13

about his durability and I think age needs to

49:16

play a role as well But I you're asking

49:18

me mix or panic. I

49:20

trust the body of work a little bit more with panics

49:22

and I do Have a Miller

49:24

like great taste list colors, you know, you're working. There

49:27

you go. I'll take it so Just

49:30

wrapping up here with Ben. I think it's

49:32

important for fairs fans. No, that's got an

49:34

interesting grew up here. Yeah Chicago

49:37

guy moved around

49:39

for media ended up in Kansas City and

49:43

It's just a good reminder. I think for bears fans

49:45

Well, I all the fairs are never gonna get a

49:47

right quarterback But that was Kansas City and

49:50

then Patrick Mahoney's landed there and all

49:52

the sudden they got it, right? I'm not saying that

49:54

Caleb's gonna be that but I'm doing he is well

49:56

I hope that I'm hoping for it by pointing out

49:58

there like look some stuff Everybody answered yes,

50:01

he's the guy Sometimes

50:03

things he could do the whole perception changes

50:05

because you ended up with the right dude

50:07

However, you ended up with him 10 city had

50:09

a lot of did a great job trading

50:11

up and getting him But maybe the bears

50:13

know you know who knows that more than anybody

50:15

who's that Ryan polls? Yeah, exactly exactly So there's

50:17

a little bit are you could tie Heisler

50:19

into all this. This is the plan for

50:21

visit. Does that are you with

50:24

me? I'm with you and timing is

50:26

everything think about it, Philadelphia Let's go

50:28

of Andy Reed beginning of 2013 Clark

50:31

times doesn't let him go to his next interview says

50:33

you're coming to Kansas City How what do we have

50:35

to do to make it happen? They bring an Andy

50:37

Reed? They trade for Alex Smith

50:39

to get back to respectability, but there was always

50:41

what's that next step? Now you

50:43

have a similar situation you have Ryan polls for

50:46

the most part of any very solid move Builds

50:48

a foundation whether or not you agree whether or not you

50:51

go for this guy I think it's a set is relevant.

50:53

The timing is everything here a line of struggles Get

50:55

back to number one pick Nice

50:58

to see some synergy there that I think

51:00

they try to emulate in the last year

51:02

of Maggie But it just

51:04

never it just never sings up this I think

51:06

you feel much more serious anything that Maggie knows

51:09

what he's doing For

51:13

about 17 18 weeks the answer was

51:16

Unapplicably, no. Yeah, they thought he was lost

51:18

as I here's another guy that's going and

51:20

taking over for Eric the enemy Like

51:23

there were play calls where I watched it.

51:25

I just thought I saw bears. It

51:27

was my home It was healthy. It was the

51:29

rest of the chief line, but I saw blue

51:31

and orange I didn't see the actual cheese players

51:33

on the field Playoffs

51:36

is a different story to figure it out and

51:38

everything always looks a lot better when you have 15 But

51:41

is it the same thing that we dealt with here in

51:43

Chicago? It's like I was watching those cheese games. I'd like

51:45

I don't know who's calling the place Nobody

51:47

really does It's still sort

51:49

of that mysterious Who's

51:51

the guy is the naggy is agreed are they

51:53

all sort of formulating the game plan together? See

51:55

my theory is I think Amy Reid is letting

51:57

him call a lot of the plays But

52:00

he's then he'll come in over the headset be like

52:02

let's do this here That's it. Well,

52:04

that happens way more than you think it does

52:06

across all football teams And there's NFL films samples

52:08

in the homes going into the huddle and saying

52:11

what about this? What about that and they're listening

52:13

to their quarterback and they're saying yeah, let's go

52:15

ahead and do it. Let's run That's

52:17

also fairly common too. All right, then good

52:19

seeing you man But before we let that Joe

52:22

actually we got a funny thing going on the

52:24

chat right now Really weird. I'm getting a lot

52:26

of you to look alike. Oh Wow,

52:30

I don't know if it's the glasses which look

52:32

almost identical to be honest in my glasses That's

52:35

adorable. Wait, but and I are distantly

52:37

related my my dad, you know Remarried

52:39

if my mom passed away to his

52:41

grandmother family, but this is interesting. Oh,

52:43

wow How did I never know that you

52:45

might actually be family? Well, you know now right? Okay,

52:48

may or may not have gotten brought up

52:50

a handful of years There's pop

52:53

a Fred grandma Dell. I'm

52:55

excited. Yeah, my sister's getting getting married in

52:57

a couple of months Yes, look back in

52:59

Chicago get a chance to give up Grandpa

53:02

Fred a hog the heisters might be the greatest

53:04

family in all families. They're very strong family guy

53:06

Look the people have spoken great football minds look

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more food coming in like Ben and I sure

53:11

why not? I know who don't pay attention and

53:13

don't know what they're talking about. Looks like car.

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Yeah, if they sure haven't you guys To

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Greg go? Did they finally come out of

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yes, it's always like that. If Greg

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comes back, you want me to go get

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him and put him in the seat? No,

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we just need to do super chat to wrap up the

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show. Oh, okay. So we're saying goodbye

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anyway. I was just trying to give him a

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chance to get on your ass off

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because he hasn't really been here. Big picture out. Yeah. Um.

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I want to do is get the prediction. Just get

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to 23. By the way, can I

57:48

give a moment of wisdom for you? Moment

57:50

of wisdom. For me, it's for you.

57:53

I don't need it for you. I'll take

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it. You don't listen. You listen. I don't

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listen. No, I didn't say you don't. You

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don't need to look right now. But

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this is from the late, great Kobe

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Bryant. He popped up in my Instagram

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today. He's talking about, are you more

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a guy who hates to lose? Is

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that your motivation or the

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love to win guy? What's

58:18

the bigger driver than me? And

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he said neither. I

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don't want to put the pressure on myself

58:28

of winning. I'm not gonna

58:30

put the fear of losing on me either.

58:33

I am here to basically

58:36

use the word learn and be present and

58:38

in the moment and taking what you can

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from that exact what was right in front

58:42

of you. Not worrying about

58:45

the outcome, but just playing the

58:47

play, shooting the shot. Doing

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whatever you can possibly do in that moment

58:52

to be your best. I thought that was

58:54

so freaking cool. All right, that was a

58:56

good wisdom. I like that market with you.

58:59

Yeah, thank you to Kobe. All right,

59:01

we got a $20 Super Chap. No, I

59:04

want to. I just want to give you the great

59:06

report. $20

59:08

Super Chap, Mark Lebat. I

59:10

have not seen it yet. Cal Grant posted an epic

59:13

five minute beat down

59:15

on Twitter to all mouth breathing knucklebaggers making

59:17

a thing about Caleb's pink phone and painted

59:20

nails. Pure magic must watch. I haven't seen

59:22

it. You guys have seen that. I haven't

59:24

seen his rant, but I've seen a lot

59:26

of criticism for Caleb Loon, for half the

59:28

pink phone, pink fingernails. Who cares? If

59:31

Caleb Williams is... It doesn't matter what he's rocking.

59:33

I like this. Who the fuck cares? Exactly. I

59:35

mean, come on, man. His mom

59:37

is a nail technician. Is that right? Yeah, well, the

59:39

whole nail painting thing is his mom. I don't know

59:41

if she still owns a nail salon or she did,

59:43

but that's the story. Let

59:46

him be him. Like, if Caleb's going to be

59:48

him and Kyle Brantford going off and having this

59:50

five minute rant that I will definitely watch at

59:52

some point. I feel like right now the

59:54

two most hated, most

59:56

popular people to hate on are Taylor

59:59

Swift. and Caleb Williams. That's

1:00:02

pretty good company for Caleb Williams to be in. That's

1:00:05

how I look at it. I would

1:00:07

say Mark Carmen and Greg Rags are

1:00:09

also on it. Well, Greg's the third,

1:00:11

Carmen's fourth. Okay, today. That's the right

1:00:13

day. Yeah, I burned it. You're doing

1:00:16

something right. Shout

1:00:18

out to that Jake Peavey jersey too.

1:00:20

That's badass. Sean's got

1:00:22

the Jake Peavey jersey going. We

1:00:25

got a $10 Super Chat for Michael Holmes. Heck

1:00:27

yeah, Brags. Go pups, go bear down. I hit

1:00:29

those. Started on my most second part of that there.

1:00:32

Well, appreciate the Super Chat. Kevin

1:00:35

Tatum, check your

1:00:37

text messages, please. What's

1:00:41

up, please? Why do you leave it like that?

1:00:43

Doesn't want to work. It's got the... You

1:00:46

can do a check. Greg's in the building. It's

1:00:49

Greg disappeared. Yeah, he

1:00:51

just left. Fine. Hey,

1:00:54

we got a $20 Super Chat from

1:00:56

Edward First, who's always in our Super

1:00:58

Chat here. He's doing Bears draft Caleb,

1:01:00

and he proves on the NFL the

1:01:02

hype is real. The Hawks are above

1:01:04

and beyond anyone else. They not

1:01:06

only got the dart, but he even surpassed the

1:01:09

hype already. I agree. That's

1:01:11

good flux right there. You can do that.

1:01:13

That's one man though. That's one guy where

1:01:15

the Bears also have a team that

1:01:19

when Caleb comes in, that's

1:01:21

why I think we were saying what we said about

1:01:23

the Bears being number one. You also might be sleeping

1:01:25

in one Caleb. Chris,

1:01:27

yes, we got one. We got

1:01:30

a diehard. I asked him to check if any diehard

1:01:32

signed up during the show because earlier we didn't have

1:01:34

one. Chris, hold on. We didn't

1:01:36

want to break the string. Chris signed up

1:01:39

to get the database and everything else that

1:01:41

comes with being a diehard. So welcome, Chris.

1:01:43

Well, let's talk about Chris. Chris is a

1:01:45

guy. Not only does

1:01:47

he have great hands, but he's a guy who scares

1:01:50

the guys. Not only does he make the catches, but

1:01:52

he's loyal. My dad. Chris,

1:01:55

it's Nick's dad. He's also, for

1:01:58

me, it's Chris Carter, When

1:02:00

I went to Ohio State and the

1:02:02

Buckeyes were playing not Northwestern He got

1:02:04

me on the field and I was

1:02:06

wearing my Northwestern hat Ski

1:02:09

hat and he was like and they

1:02:12

kicked us off the field because he was who's

1:02:14

this weirdo with the Northwestern at Chris Todrick has

1:02:16

stayed down in the field. He

1:02:18

didn't do that. He left with car We sat in

1:02:20

the stands and that's the type of Christian. We just

1:02:22

brought in her as a tire loyal heartfelt

1:02:25

leader Chris welcome

1:02:27

to the die-hard family Great

1:02:30

welcome. All right. How many more supers we got?

1:02:32

Thank you Chris for signing up. We had eight

1:02:34

more Alright, we got

1:02:37

Isaac Segal $20 hope that picture I tagged all

1:02:39

in on X fits the show to a seat

1:02:42

Alou all time is wandering. Yeah, I'm not like

1:02:44

charm didn't see it. I didn't

1:02:46

see what what yeah What is this I

1:02:48

did so the polls picture from the game

1:02:50

last night? They're looking at his face Isaac said

1:02:52

that's a look hard that hoe gives car when

1:02:55

he's not paying attention I

1:02:57

saw yeah, is that like resting hoe face

1:02:59

a little bit? No, that's that's

1:03:01

annoyed my arm That's my annoyed a car

1:03:03

base. Okay, just just know that I better

1:03:05

than rest in hoe face Just don't I

1:03:08

think hoes like better every day Yeah,

1:03:15

all right five dollars super check from Brandon

1:03:17

Halpert do you fellas think I know will

1:03:19

change rookie culture in the NFL Imagine

1:03:22

Caleb a Rome carrying other people's pants are

1:03:24

being paid love the show No, I think

1:03:26

they will bring it on that side But

1:03:28

as far as like the charity level coming

1:03:30

in I think it does change something Well,

1:03:33

I agree with what Ryan polls and Mattie You

1:03:35

were flusers saying and flus went into this on

1:03:38

the Hogan John's podcast by the way if you

1:03:40

missed that episode Like they look

1:03:42

at as a positive that he said that

1:03:44

whole like unknown of when these guys get

1:03:46

paid and what hot You know that first

1:03:48

car they buy the big house they were

1:03:51

like Kill we was already got this

1:03:53

all done man You know like so that they look at

1:03:55

it as a positive and if we heard

1:03:57

from Cole Comette on this show last week And he

1:03:59

was like no No, no, no, no, no, they're still gonna be

1:04:01

rookies. Yeah. Doesn't

1:04:03

really matter. Right, but it's another data point as to

1:04:05

how do they handle money. Or what do they do

1:04:07

with their money too? Like if you're taking a million

1:04:10

more going in. Like that is also, yeah, that could

1:04:12

be a definite benefit. I

1:04:15

am with the, I mean,

1:04:17

look, might as well make it a

1:04:19

positive, see if that's what the bears are doing. What else

1:04:21

we got, Steven? This is not a

1:04:23

Super Chat, but it was on the diehard

1:04:25

note. Mr. Flink just renewed his membership to

1:04:27

be a diehard. All right. I

1:04:30

feel like we got two now. Let's

1:04:32

do it. One Street keeps going. You don't have to

1:04:34

be a diehard. Help us out tomorrow too. We're not

1:04:36

stopping now. We'll never die. Talk

1:04:39

to King Christian, $5. What if the

1:04:41

cards trade down and JJ McCarthy goes

1:04:43

fourth? Would you as the bears trade

1:04:45

up with the Chargers and draft Marvin

1:04:47

Harrison Jr. at five? If the cost

1:04:50

wasn't prohibited, I would, but there's no way

1:04:52

the Cardinals are doing it. They want Marvin

1:04:54

Harrison Jr. I'm not doing that. Again, Marvin

1:04:56

Harrison Jr. might be a generational type talent,

1:04:59

but there's a lot of good wide receivers.

1:05:02

So I'm not trading up to go to Marvin Harrison

1:05:04

Jr. I just think there's too much supply there that

1:05:06

wouldn't be great business. Yeah. I've

1:05:08

got a theory on this. I think that's why

1:05:11

he didn't work out at the conference. I've got no

1:05:13

sources. I got nothing. You think he wants to fall

1:05:15

to the bears? No, I think that the reason he's

1:05:17

not working out is because he already has a draft

1:05:19

right. That's just me though. That would be

1:05:21

a better take. Possible. That would be a better take.

1:05:25

Tyler Super Chat from Clayton Stoker.

1:05:27

Bears take RAS in size and

1:05:29

surprises over and over. I could

1:05:32

see a dude today being available and then drooling

1:05:34

over BPGR. Brian

1:05:37

Thomas, you're Brian Thomas, you're thank you. But

1:05:40

honestly, I don't think I could be disappointed at number

1:05:42

nine, wherever they go, because they're going to get somebody good.

1:05:44

Yeah, I think it's bottom line. Number

1:05:46

nine, you're going to get a good player. Rome's

1:05:49

RAS score, that's relative athletics score, was

1:05:51

great too though. So I don't know

1:05:53

if Brian Thomas is keeping it a

1:05:55

little bit higher, but it's not like

1:05:57

Rome's was bad. They're both really good.

1:06:00

The Roman neighbors are gone and they take Brian

1:06:02

Thomas Jr. It's because they didn't have a great

1:06:04

trade down partner, which would kind of suck, but

1:06:06

hopefully it would work out. We

1:06:09

got a $2 Super Chat from Tito

1:06:12

Pizzor. People talking about Caleb Woon's

1:06:15

outfit last night. I thought we kind of touched on

1:06:17

this a little bit already. Who cares? Like,

1:06:19

let him dress how he wants to dress, let's do what he wants to do.

1:06:22

He paid 9Qv1, baby. Keep

1:06:24

doing it. I just want a guy that

1:06:26

wins a football game. That's all I care

1:06:28

about. Nobody's going to hate me week one.

1:06:31

It's a different world. Open yourself up to

1:06:33

it. People are going to do different things.

1:06:35

Can't control it. Our guy, Karm Sky, Matt

1:06:37

Dutu, $5.00, Matt Dutu Thursday, my Friday this

1:06:39

week, guys. Love this show today.

1:06:41

Bear down and go Illini. Big night

1:06:44

for the Illini. Let's go, Iolo. I'll do

1:06:46

two. I actually, for at

1:06:48

least for this moment in time, I'll, because Dutu's in

1:06:50

there and Dutu's been such a great supporter, I'll

1:06:53

do some Iolo Illini. Let's go. Did I play

1:06:55

tonight? Nine o'clock. What

1:06:58

are you going to do? Is he going to

1:07:00

play tonight at the same time? Cody is ready

1:07:02

to be heard again. That's all I know. Cody

1:07:04

is going to get off the Cubs show right

1:07:06

in Illinois. He's going to have a good time.

1:07:08

I think they're on 940. Iowa

1:07:12

State, right? Illinois State? Yeah, tough game. If

1:07:14

they win, they're mostly going to have to

1:07:16

play. You guys are tough, tough

1:07:19

road for the Illini right now. All

1:07:21

right, Karm. We go from your guy to your

1:07:23

number one hater. Phillip, is it so low? Oh

1:07:25

my god, it's so low. He's got a $10.

1:07:27

He says, go, Cubs go. I hate saying this,

1:07:29

go, Cubs go. Hey Chicago, what do you say?

1:07:31

Karm looks really old today. Now that's

1:07:33

a song I can sing. Hey

1:07:36

Chicago, what do you say? Karm looks

1:07:38

really old today. That's as close as

1:07:40

I'm ever going to come to sing in that song. Let me

1:07:42

tell you something, Pizzucola. One day

1:07:44

we will meet. He's going to be a great friend.

1:07:46

You're going to get a hug from me because you're

1:07:48

going to have a big smile on your face, Pizzucola.

1:07:51

See how deep full I look at this tender age

1:07:54

of 50. I

1:07:56

like the, how am I

1:07:59

50? versus Pizzatola is the

1:08:01

best rivalry we have. It's greater than

1:08:03

you versus Bragg. Pizzatola is such a

1:08:05

fraud. Oh, wow. But

1:08:07

I love Pizzatola. Pizzatola's such a super jet every

1:08:09

day. He's so fraud. No, Pizzatola's the man. I'm

1:08:11

a Pizzatola fan, whether he likes me or not.

1:08:13

And I know he's out. He loves me. Bragg

1:08:15

is a fraud. He leaves in the middle of

1:08:17

the show. Don't worry, what? Yeah, he never came

1:08:19

back. But so, A, real quick, on the way

1:08:21

out here, late night

1:08:24

yesterday, 5 o'clock, Grace Carmen,

1:08:26

superstar, at Lane Tech, a

1:08:29

junior, leading the young tech, Lane

1:08:31

Tech champions, sprained her ankle

1:08:33

in Game 2, but now coming back, they're on spring

1:08:36

break. We went to the Bulls game last night. So

1:08:38

we stopped by CHGO. She

1:08:41

beat Jake Flanagan. She

1:08:44

took, and then she beat me in ping pong.

1:08:47

21-19, it was a horrible loss. You

1:08:50

were past your ping pong peak. I

1:08:52

just spoke to Cody, who

1:08:55

had beaten Grace. And

1:08:57

it was rocking Ryan Herrera. And

1:09:01

then I lost to my niece, who was

1:09:03

in high school. And I'm upset about it. But

1:09:05

it was too. I had to get

1:09:07

thrown over, man. We got to get out

1:09:09

of here for White Sox. Nick, this beat me the last

1:09:11

two. You probably knew that, though. We

1:09:13

still have a ton of people watching. I just

1:09:15

want to say, wow, that was an interesting car.

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White Sox coming up in one. Let the record show. Some

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lot of fun. Some of us did not.

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The ones that did not are Cubs fans. What

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a disappointment

1:09:58

of an individual. I

1:10:01

am actually He

1:10:04

might not be on the show, but he is in our comments Well

1:10:09

this excuse he's calling

1:10:12

himself a god so and typical

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brag All

1:10:18

right, let the record show James Hogue has

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done more work than brags during this show

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Our promotional team right now Knee-fended

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everything he got real low on the

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shot Jersey

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to that one sideways I Love

1:10:38

ta still by the way as a father and

1:10:40

I think probably a lot of Chicago dads can

1:10:43

say this I I I think I'm 0 for

1:10:45

ten in buying that kid jerseys. I

1:10:47

mean I want your safe by do we? Hear

1:10:51

we'll go through this mr. Biscay feels

1:10:55

Tim Anderson Tim Anderson was a really

1:10:57

safe by yes, no uh, uh Jordan

1:11:02

Howard his first Jersey was a Jordan Howard Jersey.

1:11:04

That was a read at a time Well, here's

1:11:07

why it was the purchase in the Target in

1:11:09

Bourbon a good job the morning before practice He

1:11:11

was the only Jersey they had in there and

1:11:13

it wasn't even a real Jersey. It was like

1:11:16

one of those fake target You're putting a PC.

1:11:18

Yeah fine choice. Yeah, so it wasn't that expensive

1:11:20

but yeah struck out on all of them There's

1:11:22

probably some others in there too. It's not good. I don't even know

1:11:24

where to go right now What

1:11:30

I thought about Justin We

1:11:34

are not going down that road tips I know

1:11:36

gonna be here for a decade Let's go give

1:11:38

me the most random white Sox player in the

1:11:40

lineup today and I'll buy that Jersey I

1:11:42

seriously can't name Paul DeYoung Illinois State along

1:11:45

maniac though Any

1:11:48

act so back Luis Robert Garrett

1:11:50

crochet You're

1:11:53

naming all the guys I know I need the ones I don't Hard

1:11:56

but it's hard to know a name that you

1:11:58

don't know Andrew Vaughn in the lineup today The

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