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I'll get the link up. I look forward to your comments. We'll be here for about, let's say, 45 minutes today. Nice little episode. I'm sure we can get a lot in.
First thing I want to say, the very first thing I want to say is. Fuck ESPN. Alabama should not be in that playoff. Notre Dame is right to set out a bowl game. They're made for TV ESPN events.
I'll have more on that. later. I'm sick as hell, but that game was fun. Yes. Yes, it was fun.
Jake thought I was shirtless at first. Yes, this pink is the color of my skin. I have started putting other when I fill out um Applications. Great game, Bart. Love looks great.
Absolutely he does. Mr. I'm still dead.
Now Bears fans can. Shut the hell up. Look, I just got to say this from the rivalry perspective: it is different when we're both good.
Okay, because the Bears were coming back, and the Bears are good. The Bear the Bears are good. This is also how they've been winning. They've got five. Comebacks in the fourth quarter.
After two minutes, I think the stat was. They are winning games. Chiefs like last year. Where even if they're not perfect for four quarters, This team knows how to win. They do.
They didn't tonight. But the Bears know how to win. That is a massive step. That is a massive step. As somebody who has been doing a national show for the last two years.
In the next two weeks. I have been on in Chicago. And I do appreciate the relationship between. Chicago, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Illinois. And I want to know, or I want to let the Chicago audience know.
That I'm not just the average Packer fan. Who says the bears still suck 365 days a year? I want to watch this team with a rightful eye. That's not a thing. But I want to watch this Bears team, and I want to be able to tell if they're good or not.
So the Bears are good. Because they have They have popped off the first major thing they needed to do. Which was Learn how to win. The Chicago Bears know how to win football games. Ben Johnson's a reason for that.
Caleb Williams is a reason for that. They know how to win. Are they good? Yeah. Are they four quarters good?
No. But do they know how to win when they're three-quarters good? Sure. Were the Packers four-quarters good? I don't know.
I mean,. That drive that the Bears got every third down was excruciating.
So that was bad. But they're ahead of schedule. The Chicago Bears are ahead of schedule. And When you're ahead of schedule, As a fan, First out. Shout out this man.
Slim Lewis guitar. We got out coached and still won. Love your shows, Bart. Keep up the great work. And for those asking, where can you find me?
This is it. Uh we might have a lot more national Audience members joining the fray, joining the Winkler verse, which is good. I am looking for ways to accommodate those. Uh, but not, you know. Change the menu.
too much. I do need to do a college football specific only One and I Tim Shea. I need you for that one. Uh 'cause what happened in college football is complete. And other bullshit, which, if you look at my Twitter account in the third quarter, All my retweets about how ESPN has ruined the product and Kirk Herb Street's terrible and.
Alabama's, you know, whining and No excuses except for when they lose. That was the stress of that drive. It might have been a fourth-quarter drive, but the stress of when the Bears took it down the field and were converting every third. That was the stress of that drive. Thank you again.
Uh Slim Lewis. uh for the uh twenty bucks to the show Did the shell kitty? Um so yeah. The Bears are ahead of schedule.
So when you're ahead of schedule. As a fan, I think you start to You start to think, well, what if? You see Ben Johnson take his shirt off, and you think if this is how they're going to celebrate on Thanksgiving, what's the next step? What's coming up? What's next?
I think the Bears can make the playoffs. Obviously, they put themselves in a good position. I don't think they're going to go to the playoffs and win a playoff game. I think next year is the year where they're going to truly start to contend for the North. And now, if they would have won today.
All of that would have had to go out the window. But the Packers, I think the Packers, this is a Packers podcast, right? Remind myself. Um They had every opportunity, just as Chicago did, to come back and win. The Packers had every opportunity to let Chicago do that.
And they did not let Chicago do that. And the defense, while it was rough, And the third downs were... Yeah. Bears were eight of 16. We were eight for 12.
Did not seem like that. Bears also converted. A fourth down. They had the ball. A lot more than us in that second half.
33 minutes total in the game, 33. And a half, uh, but they certainly controlled the clock and controlled the pace. of that third quarter, couple of three and outs for the Packers. I don't fault a lot of the play calling today. I think Matt LaFleur had a great third down.
I thought they might get a little run heavy. After the eight minutes that the defense was out there, Jacobs, big first down on a first-down run.
So I think they stepped up.
So, you know. My main enemy of the season, Matt LaFleur. Again, this is the second week in a row. I think they did a really nice job. I think that third down.
Look, the third down where they ran it to Jacobs, you got to trust your running back a little bit. But I loved the play to Watson. That was probably my favorite play of the day. A third down. He comes across the middle.
He turns the burners on. He scores. I think that was as important as any other play. Today, I think Jordan Love, if I can talk about him, because Jordan Love is good. Thank you, Marcus.
Pay $10 to Bart every time he's right. I will be broke. One payment covers all the times that I'm right.
So that that'll be That'll be a good uh Way to put it, but Marcus, you know, I appreciate you. Always chiming in. I'll throw the link up if you want to join. We're on Twitter. Facebook.
Uh I believe and uh Yeah. the other one Oh, the Dan Shaney YouTube stream, of course. Don't forget to hit up. My guy Dan Shaney. Um Jordan Love, that first interception, and this is my problem with Jordan Love.
The conversation around Jordan Love. I have become As much as I am a Matt LaFleur-er. I have also become a Jordan Love defender. I don't want to be a Jordan Love defender in the way where I can't. properly say When he makes a mistake.
And on that interception. The read was bad. He didn't see him. That was a bad play. It was a bad play.
Um Are you not afforded some of those? That was his fourth interception of the season.
So I'm not. Looking. For Jordan love bad plays. See them with my eyes and then say, How can I twist this one? Where it's actually not a bad play.
It's actually a good play. How can I not do that? All I see is he makes a bad play. And then Everyone freaks out. Says, see, he's not the guy.
It's his fourth pick of the year. It's fourth pick of the year. I just feel like the reactions and I don't want to go too far the other way either, but the reactions to him playing poorly are stronger on him than any other quarterback that I think I've I've witnessed. It does feel like Rogers when he took over for Favre. That first year.
Were they six and ten? Rogers. There's a specific game against Carolina. where he brought them back. And then Dallom hit Steve Smith.
So Rodgers brought them back, but it was like with a minute 50 to go or something. I'd have to look at the specifics. But then Rogers gets shit on for not having these two-minute drives or leading comebacks when he did. Just the defense gave it back in a play. And Rodgers kept getting cramped on for that because people will just box score hunt.
And say, well, look. Look what he did. They lost. Oh, yeah, a couple intercepts or three touchdowns, but they lost. He can't lead a fourth quarter.
He did do that. And then the defense let him go.
So I think with Jordan Love, he throws some interceptions where you're like, oh my God, you're sixth year in the league, my brother. Third is a starter. What are we doing here, my guy? But he also Had a really nice game. Did you think that one was going to Watson?
No, it was going to read. It was going to read the whole time. Jordan Love, 17 of 25, three touchdowns at 234 yards. And I've said this before, but when Jordan Love drops back to pass. You can only see so much on the T V screen.
They don't show you the all 22. We're not seeing the routes develop unless you're at the game. Which I will be next week. Denver You don't see it all. But there's a way that Jordan Love throws that football, and you know it's coming down.
In a receiver's hands. And he was able to do that a couple of times today to Watson, the 45-yard strike to Bo Melton. Was great. Just there's a lot. There's a lot.
of positives in this game. The obvious negatives, the drive that never ended, and let the Bears back in it. Um I think the defense, you know, slowed down. Nixon, for him not catching that one interception. Did a nice job baiting for the game winner where Caleb Williams thought he had a guy wide open in the end zone because he did.
But Nixon was able to recover. and get the interception.
So that was that was massive. A lot about Keyshawn Nixon today. You know, you're scratching your head, but he came up and had the big interception. Rasheed Walker on their first drive. I don't think I do not.
Watch the offensive lineman. I just can't train my eyes to do it. Couldn't take my eyes off of him. Even on a third down, I think it was, Jacobs got around the outside, around the outside. But Walker had just like Not touched anybody.
So Yeah, some negatives, but this was a great win. This felt like a Playoff atmosphere. There felt like there was a lot on the line. It felt like the Packers rose to the occasion early. They had to withstand then?
You know, some letdown. We call that adversity. When you're leading. And then you are then tied In sports, we call that adversity. We had a lead and then we were tied.
We had to get through the adversity.
So they got through adversity and then they were able to make the big stop. Uh at the end. Which was great. T dot R Hello, is that Is that Zach Efron Gudekinst? With the the the new Zac Efron face?
Bart, you're my go-to post-game guy. Keep it going. Bieber Heart emoji. Coming right back at you. Uh appreciate All of that, you guys.
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I'll get back to this one about Bears fans shutting the hell up. I do think that they should be excited. Bears fans should be excited. Their team Has a quarterback that's good. Caleb was good.
Caleb was really good. Caleb ended a lot of plays. I'm not gonna and I'm a Caleb believer, so I'm not gonna say a bad thing about him. Uh Ben Johnson. Good coach.
This is a good pairing. This will be good for them. This pairing will win an NSC North division. at some point. I would say they may go to a Super Bowl at some point, but I can't because.
We thought Lamar would haven't been yet. We thought Josh Allen would haven't been yet. We thought Rodgers would go back after 2010, did not. Although it could this year they lead the AFC North. But The Bears fans should have a lot of reason for optimism.
I still think they put the cart before the horse too many times. They came into this week expecting to win. Which again, you're a fan. It's short for. Fn f fanatic fantasy land.
But Not yet. Not yet. And even watching it, I don't know. I I don't, I don't like people that make. This rivalry, their personality, 365 days a year.
I've said that. But That doesn't mean I'm above it.
Okay. I'm as anxious as everybody else. I my mood. is Terribly different than how it would be if they lost. And it wouldn't just be because the Packers lost the game.
It would be all the Bears fans and what they would say, and the premature NFC victory lag. It would just be that. And that does bother me. Don't let it bother you. I can't.
The only way that it doesn't bother me is if it doesn't happen. The only way it doesn't happen. Is that the Packers win, which they did? XOXO. James on Twitter, Parsons is still being held.
It's not even comical anymore. It's bullshit. I mean every Every play He beats The line. There's one guy hanging out. Clearly has Parsons.
And they just Let it go. Every single time. We're not Making that up. We're not delusional about that. Chuck says Caleb's a baller.
Yes. Caleb's very good. Pras, good game, first bad game Ben Johnson's had all season. I don't know about that. I'm sure he's had many more, but I don't think this one was that bad.
I don't think this was bad. The running attack got going in the third. Caleb did a good job extending plays. Maybe The Bears were too much like, all right, we need Caleb to. find a guy.
Maybe they could have had plays develop quicker, I guess. Getting Reid involved quickly, that's Jake, was great to see. Uh bears finally have a coach who's not an idiot. Let's go, Bart. I like that.
Oh, what's up? B dub? Just saying hi is totally fine. Just ripping through some of these. LaFleur needs to go on an epic rant about how Parsons is officiated.
Has he gotten a single holding penalty drawn this season? Not hyperbole to say he's held nearly 100% of his snaps. That's from Jake. Yeah, but LaFleur will probably come out and say the crowd was great today rather than Hey! Get your hands off my fucking guy.
Ben L joining the proceedings. Go Pecko. Thanks for having me on Bart.
Well, thanks for coming on. Like I said. I don't want to make this rivalry my personality, but I'm not above it. They needed that win today. They needed that win.
To prevent the Bears from having that win, probably more importantly than anything. But this was a good game where, like I said, they got out early. I don't think the Bears. Met the moment early, but I also think the Bears, this is. I never thought it was over.
They have been able to come back, they've come back a lot. They've come back a lot. They have. They have that metal, they have that knowledge. They will be a tough out in the playoffs.
Um they will be out though. Yeah. Our D line looked tired in the third. Too early for me. Go ahead.
Our D line looked tired in the third. And I mean, without Wyatt. Big tripped away. I think there was a good game plan by the Bears. They had a chance to win, but Jordan Love was lights out, man.
He didn't let them win. There was no opening. Yeah, we threw a pick. Yeah, he threw a pick. And it wasn't a great pass.
But I mean, we've lived through it with Fav. We got spoiled with Rogers. We can take a little bit of inconsistency with love once in a while. Micah Parsons being held is unbelievable. I every time Williams rolled out, it was Holding.
It was a result because Micah Parsons was being held. And that one time where Caleb tried to outrun him, Micah was going to take him out right on the sideline. It was awesome on the right side. I think it's hard to not forget that play because he was just bearing down on him.
So yeah, that's good. Good game. Bruce City says Jordan love is great. How is he just good? Tired of this crap from Packer fans just because of Farvin Rodgers.
And I think today's the formula. I think today, I keep talking about this magic formula. I think today might be the formula. Because Jordan love Needed those three touchdowns. Those two deep shot touchdowns.
The 234 yards. Two Like that good equals the one play bad he had.
So I'm not saying that. I'm saying that Jordan Love was tremendous today. But for a lot of Packer fans, When they talk about Jordan Love with their friends or at work tomorrow. Whenever they talk about Jordan Love. They will not Have the strength.
To not mention the interception. It doesn't need to be mentioned. It was his fourth pick of the year. It did not harm or affect the result. He had three touchdowns, two of them beautiful balls.
He had a lot other, the Musgrave one.
So close, but that was another great example. I think one thing that love does. that he doesn't get a lot of credit for. When he has these like Boneheaded plays. Oh, Jordan Love threw a pick.
Boneheaded. All the time it's boneheaded. He doesn't see a guy. Most of the times that I feel like he throws a pick. He didn't see a guy.
A lot of the other times he's making these throws, where is he making the throws to? The part of the receiver's body. That only he can get it. He's not throwing up a lot of contested balls. He's guiding these guys a lot.
He's throwing it where they will be. Jordan Love is a really good quarterback and Having the Referendum on them after every interception is a fool's errand. I do want to mention our defense is amazing. I don't want to understate, yeah, the D line got tired in the third, but. Jordan Love should be allowed to mistake a game with how good our defense is.
I don't see that being a problem with his defense. the Packers defense being as good as it is. Hatake Jake joining. Yo. I was just tired of the.
Tired of writing his name and just write hot take Jake. I don't know. I feel like I, you know, in my own head, I have to come up with something and it's just like, yeah, whatever, not today. Um okay, a couple things. Disappointed in LaFleur.
Not to say he was awful or, you know, beyond terrible, but like. Just went a little bit too far back to what we know, which is trying to play to not lose. He definitely was rewarded for bad behavior on, I think it was third and. Three or four, where they pitched out to Jacobs and Jacobs was basically dead to rights, five yards behind the line of scrimmage, and he made a play. Um Yeah, so Jordan Love was for the most part good.
It would be really nice. And this is just, again, Ben mentioned it, we've been spoiled. If he could just like come out ready to go, he's definitely a guy that needs to settle in, throw some bad balls, let a couple sail, and then it's like he gets into a rhythm. It's like. Trying to be a little bit greedy with Jordan, but it is what it is.
Nobody's perfect. Jacobs had, I think, the best game of his year or best game of the year for him. I was confused by. Does anybody know what happened to Dantavian Wicks? Because I didn't see him at all.
We had Bo Melton getting deep looks. It was just very odd to me. Wicks was out there, and then he wasn't out there. Very strange. He was quietly having a really good season.
The O-line performed great. Typically, one of those games where, if you don't think about it, they're doing their job. Uh, Ben, I think, mentioned it too. The defense ran out of gas. Uh, again, that was just really, really tough.
It's it's a trademark of the LaFleur era where you get a good lead, you come out in the second half, and three and out. They ended up getting a touchdown on the next drive, but then boom, three and out again.
So, um, everybody's going to break down if you can't stay off the field for a little bit. Nixon, my goodness, um, this guy is, I don't know if I can recall a more feast or famine type player where one how do you feel about this comment from Matt? Nixon is the Bobby Portis of the Packers. I think Big Bob is a lot more consistent than Nixon is. I think people like Bobby more than Nixon.
Well the challenge. There's nobody's indifferent on Bobby. He's very polarizing. I love Bobby. I love Big Bob.
Big Bob on AS. But Big Key. I think he's a player that one week looks like an all-pro, and the next week looks like Terrell Buckley. Like, it's, there's, there's no in between right now. Rendered shell, by the way.
T-Buck? I've had T-Buck on. Shut up, seriously?
Well, the Radio show not The Vascinator, man. Yeah. Yeah, but overall, I guess you never apologize for winning, but. I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit disappointed with how the win played out because I really thought after that first half, especially, if you come out and score a touchdown to open the second half, you pretty much now you're forcing Caleb to have to make big plays. He's going to start throwing you gifts.
And uh yeah, it is what it is. But overall, I think if you go Three and one the rest of the way, you win the division easily. Two and two, if you beat Chicago as well, probably wins the division.
So it's nice to have that playoff picture start to come into form. And the Parsons thing is just it's disgusting. And I wrote in the comment: it's not hyperbole to say on nearly 100% of the snaps. He's being held, and it's not like ticky tack, like, oh, that should have been a hold. Like, literally, where every other time when you see a guy just.
Carrying someone into the backfield with you know being pulled, his arms are up. It's just like I don't understand. You know, we see it as Bucks fans the way that they officiate Giannis, where you know, referees are telling Doc Rivers, Well, Giannis plays through the contact, so yeah, Parsons to start flopping here. I don't understand.
Well, we won't have to worry about that after December 15th, but. Yeah, probably not. It's not looking good. I I don't know. Speaking of the bucks.
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Noel Packer post-game show next weekend. As I will be there. That's fun. Mm-hmm. It's going to be a tough one.
So I think I don't know, I think the Bears are better than the Broncos. I do too. Yeah. I think the Bears and Wilder. I think they're very similar.
I think they're very similar. The Broncos won today, right? I didn't watch a second of the other games. In the afternoon. Oh, yeah.
They beat the Raiders by seven. Do you guys actually think Chicago's good though? Like, I still. The game today, like, okay, it comes down to the wire. Maybe at some point, even if you think it's the horseshoe up-your-ass thing, like, if it's happening every week, but um, I didn't see anything that made me think, like, man, they're gonna be a tough out in the playoffs or anything like that.
I just I think Chicago I think overall is good. But when I say Jordan Love is good. And I say Chicago's good. I don't think that they're not equal to me. I really think Jordan Love is great.
But I'm just like saying good for now. Uh, the Bears, I think, just say it, just say he's great. All right, Jordan Love's great. There you go, let's go. It's about who's gonna debate that, argue that right now.
I'm sick of this crap of, well, we love Justin Fields, we love Caleb Williams, but we just kind of like Jordan Love. Like, come on, say it with your chums. The Bears, the Bears. The Bears are The Bears have been. Good for 15 years.
They've been above average to good. As a whole. The team. But they can't win. They don't know how to win.
They never learned how to win. Caleb and Ben have taught them how to win. This is a very similar Bears team.
So, either this team is there, here's your pick and adventure. Either I'm wrong. which I could be, and I'm giving the Bears too much credit. Or I'm completely wrong. I could be completely wrong.
They're still the same dog shit that they've always been. They're just more lucky. This year. You pick your path. I'm saying they're good.
And then finally, let me ask you this. Here's a good litmus test. How confident were you in Jordan Love, the final drive, that Green Mae had the ball? And then, how confident were you that Caleb was going to do something stupid on the last drive? Yeah.
I didn't I was confident that we would score. Although when Emmanuel Wilson slipped, I got concerned. Yep. I also I I got like a really bad feeling when they used that time out before the I think fourth and one call or third and one. I feel like if they would have scored, they were going to go for two.
100%. They were bringing the clock down. Do you think we should have gone for two? Yeah. No.
Well, yeah. Always go for two because then you know how much many possessions you need. Yeah. Yeah. Greg Olson.
Oh. Hey, what do you guys think of Tom Brady? Because I think he's possibly the worst color guy I've ever heard. He is a doofus. He is not good.
Kevin Burckhardt. Calls every play As if He's amazed by the game of football, as we all are. It's a great game. But he calls every play as if he is Just seeing football for the first time. Oh my god, you're kidding me!
Ten-yard catch to Sicaez.
Okay. Well, you know what I think about Brady is You know, Romo has that thing for a while where it was like he could see the play coming before it happens. Like, he really wants to be that guy. Like, he wants to believe that, you know, he's the smartest guy ever. And, like, even on a play where I think it was a penalty against Chicago, and like, he thought it was against Green Bay, and then he just sounded dumbfounded when he was like, huh?
I think it was simple, like neutral zone infraction or something. I just, I don't know. He looks like a skinwalker too. It creeps me out. He Yeah.
He makes weird sounds like that you just shouldn't make if you're announcing a play-by-play. He's like. I don't know. He makes weird faces too. It's like someone told him never stop smiling.
Did we like his um Outfit today? No, absolutely not. Snow. Did you buy it? No, did he?
He he had like black leather on and he looked like an egg. If you guys are watching It's good. If you're watching live, I got about 12 more minutes. My wife's got a night out tonight and I gotta My wife. Let me read some more comments, though, that I have not looked at yet.
Matt says, love you, Bart. Gonna miss you.
Well They'll be here, but You know what I'm gonna miss the most about the show with the national audience and everyone that's been so nice? is the paycheck. The reason. The financial security problem that you've got. The financial security, knowing that it, you know.
Every other Friday there's gonna be a check. But I will miss the relationships we've formed over the Two years spears or Huh? I'll miss the routine. It was a big part of my day. And they appreciate Benjamin calling in.
Is Carlos going to stay a regular on the podcast? Because we need a non-fall knower every now and then. He's really bad. Like, especially with football, he's really bad. He's not.
Nice guy, but man, is he terrible with football?
Well, he's a Giants fan, so that's tough. What's his favorite sport? Yeah. Yeah. No, Carlos will be a part of what we're doing.
All right, Greg says Bears are good now. Pains me to admit it. They whooped us. in the line of scrimmage. Second half, maybe.
First half, Gribe killed him. Adam also thought I was shirtless. Just take it off, buddy. No diddy. No, no, no, but I'll go.
I'll go green. There you go. Is that better?
Now I blend into my background. The pink and green is the great combination. You needed like. Pink. Under sleeves or something, you know?
That should be a little bit. Should I even do a real special? Should I show hair today? Love it. I think the salmon and olive is more of a Grant Bills look.
Okay, not that. Where did I get that? Was that a Costco shirt? Mm-hmm. Dude, Costco's been killing it with the winter gear.
This is Costco. Yeah. This should be wait a minute. Was that intentional? Like, are you saying it that way as a bit?
'Cause it's like always dancing me to say it. Costco, isn't it Costco?
Okay. Who knows? There's that on there, right? Costco. Did I say Costco?
Costco. Yeah, when it comes to cost. I'm saying it like Osco Drug. Remember Osco Drugs? Osco Jewel?
Yeah, if I was being Wisconsin, I would call it Costco's. Like everyone calls Meyer Meyers. Illinois. Most bears fans going back to Illinois. Alex says both fans should have to fear the other team's quarterback for years to come.
No. Like, make Caleb of the last three, he's the best. Clearly. Is that really a high bar to clear? Like, who's we should fear him?
Give me a break, man. He's good. I think there's a thing. I think Caleb's good. Packers fans are just so scared of the Bears actually being good that they'll, it takes away objectivity.
Like, they can't look at Kayla and just be like, I don't know. Like, he has great feet, great escapability. He almost looks like Barry Sanders, the way he can escape things. But if he has to be consistently in the pocket, he's cooked. Mm-hmm.
But he doesn't, he that's not his game. I mean, until he gets older and he can't do it as fluidly as well. And not many guys are five years of him, probably.
Well, not many guys can be the escape out of the pocket guy every play and be long-term successful.
So I'm not scared at all. Jeff says it's going to be a tougher game in two weeks in Chicago Saturday night. No shit, it's a road game. Even a little bit Saturday night Winkler verse. There you go.
I believe that'll be the first. Winkler versus Pot of the New Era. Which is Wicklerverse 2.0. Yes. I changed back to Bart Winkler show again.
No, no, we can't hear. Did you name it that, Jake? I always gave credit to you. I think, well, it may have just like collectively as a group, we all started. 'Cause you're into that whole MCU stuff, so I think it just kinda came about.
David says, I love Nixon, but he needs a life coach to tone down his anger issues. He's got choked. That was bullshit. Yes, I agree. That was bullshit.
At I don't scroll by him too often on the boneheaded stuff, but that should have been at least a negated penalty. The referees were terrible today. Awful. I don't know if there's a conversation that I wasn't privy to in the comments. Sean says I collect Canadian quarters.
This is what the kind of stuff you're going to get here for people that are joining the Winklerverse for the first time. This is the riveting type shit. My dad says, let's go Winklerverse. What up, daddy? Hi Dad.
I'll put a winkler. Uh Ben looks like a T-Moo version of John Kuhn.
Okay. I'll take it. Yeah, that's a new one. He looks like a Packers fan. Like, what's wrong with him?
I think you're deliberate. Oh, maybe if I take my bald head, does that help or make it worse? That that uh That um that's the same guy as the Canadian Quarters guy.
So he just hooked me up with eight Canadian quarters, unless there's a. There's a pretty steep also. I take offense to that on Ben's behalf because. John Coon is like the Timo version of whatever. Like, he's the Timu version of Maybe Ben because John Coon's garbage.
Okay, I was about to say, I'm Timo, Timu Semption. I'm Timu Timu, Timo, Timu, whatever. Oh, speaking of Timu. Uh Jake, I'm actually glad you're here. Yeah.
Yes, unbeknownst. Um Hot Take Jake is the first recipient. of the Bart Winkler show. Peace Prize Award.
Okay. Congratulations. I yes. I'm I'm humbled. I don't know what that means, but I am so humbled.
Yeah. What did he do? No, that was the political joke. I get it. I think it was good.
I dug it.
Well, you did that, my pick of beast fries. I will put it on myself. And Just be an amazement of it. We've got to take the Winkler versus to the next level and we'll have to. buy you a plaque that you can show.
Yeah, I'll settle for another tailgate. Give me some sort of ceremony at the tailgate. Unemployed Bart is a more entertaining Bart. This is true. I got two weeks left.
I like COVID part. And I'll tell you this part. I don't think it's intentional on Bart's part because, like, obviously, I think, you know. When you're on the national airwaves, when you're as big a deal as Bart is. You have to like bring it back a little bit.
So like I do think we get a little bit closer to unhinged Bart. Not quite like that. I don't really think I left a lot on the table in that national show. It was enough to notice, I would say. In the beginning, I felt it out.
Yeah. I mean, now I've spent all week saying ESPN is a dog shit company. I'll never, I mean, no chance I'm ever going to apply there because I shit on them all the time. Um, I always am Midwest is the best. Can I tell you it's a little bit small?
Can I tell you a couple LOL moments that I had, like legitimately not text someone LOL? Like I laughed out loud while I was driving. The ghosts of the guy who owned your house, I was pissing myself. And then I think actually it was uh Paul, who played the clip of you, basically just giving up on The number is uh, where I gotta go. I was pissing myself, man.
It was so good. Mm-hmm. Love was only sacked once. That's from Tom. The O-line is figuring it out.
Yeah, they were great. They were great. Dumb question. How do we call in?
So I put a link up. And I'll do that. In these post games when I'm live. I'm not going to do it anymore today because we're going to go here soon. Yeah, get in there next time, Neil.
The other way to get in. is the Carls Place voicemail line. 402915 BART. 402-915-2278. And if you need a stimulator.
Is that an AI voicemail report? Oh no, we're gonna have Bears fans just bombarding your voicemail with. AI. Bart, I think you should have a sleepover at your house for the Winklerverse. Like, that would be an epic, uh...
Episode. We just have a big house, you got a garage. Yeah, dude. Where do you live, Bart? You live in a village.
We could do a beer garden maybe. I don't have a big enough house to have a sleep. You'd put us in the west wing. You'd put someone out of business, probably, if you had to get together. I would say What about bringing back the Brewer's Tailgate?
Now we're talking. Uh yeah. Matt's injury. Huh? Matt singing off his eyebrows on the grill.
I got an even better idea. What about first? Bucks game post Giannis when tickets are nine dollars. I'll buy a section. We could get something a GoFundMe for Postianis.
But I think we wouldn't mind paying for tickets. I'm down to buy a ticket. Bears still suck from Chris. I did go to the Bucks game. Friday night, and it was Bradley Center style pricing.
Really? Yep. Who do they play? Uh Philly. Yeah.
What about a potto tailgate? Should we all go to no, I'm not. Pado, you just said you need a paycheck, and we're going to go to Pado to celebrate. We're all going to need a higher paycheck.
So I've got two. Let me pivot to this. Or we could get your money from donations on the channel. I just got one from Neil. Neil, you're in next week, first guest.
Pado, Pado, take it to Pado. That's on now does this even get a hand at Paddle right now? Sports book, do like a five-way parlay. Yeah. We'll save this thing.
Two things I want to mention.
Well, okay, so the overall blanket is. Um I will be soliciting for podcast sponsors. As one of the things I'm going to try to do is. There's certain people I would like to get on the show consistently. Mm-hmm.
And offer them payment for their time?
Okay. I will have more on that later. But I'm gonna stop talking about potawatomy. Until they pay me. I I've they've had they've they've they There's two places that are everywhere right now.
Except, um Here. And that would be Poto. Which I'm open to it. And the Nicolae guy. Nicolai Law?
Beard beard? Yeah. Have you ever noticed on a certain if you ever see this podcast with the Nicole A logo? Either My wife is out of work, and I need this podcast to eat. Or He doubles whatever I...
Go ahead. I don't think he cares about me. We all care about you, buddy. Yeah. I just I mean I see everybody's got 'em and And I've got it.
Ben's paying me to be on the show. Yeah. Is that your part? I don't know. Now it's like a telethon.
We got to keep it going. Um, Jake. Yeah, I don't know how to do it from here. Can I do it from here? Ben, give me a quick how-to.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I have uploaded my card. I did YouTube and then I bought it through YouTube. No, no, no, no, no. Really, my pleasure, Bart. Great show.
Always love being on here. Hmm. Yeah, remember when you were like, hey, would you pay? $500 to keep your team. And like, I would pay $500 to keep the Winklerverse going.
You know what I mean? Oh, that's nice. Don't I'll just Apple pay you, all right?
Okay. The Winkler verse.
Well, can I ask a quick question, Bart? Yeah. Did you end up getting those signed rookie cards for your son? Yeah. No.
I forgot about that. Darn. I was kind of pumped for that. I thought that was really cool that the guy was. you know, gifting, that was pretty nice.
Mm, that was cool. That was cool. The Winkler Verse. Is not, it's Winkler, but it's the Winkler verse. This part I'm serious about.
There is something here. There's a community. There's something. Right? There's something.
There's something. Um And that is why. I feel like at least Well, no, I'm not looking for other jobs. I'm just going to do this. I'm not wasting my time.
I'm not looking for other jobs. I'm doing this. I'm not signing up for fucking batteries plus. I'm not begging iHeart for a job. If you need any ideas.
I got you. I'm doing Winklerverse. Hell yeah. I really like your picks with Horvat, and then it'd be cool to follow up on that on a regular basis. I don't know what we were going to do this week, but I was sick as shit.
You know what I don't like about Horvat? I don't like people that will like make a point and then say, right? Like, it's like it forces you to agree with it.
So he'd be like, you know, Jordan Love, like, you know, he's a, he, he's a great player, right? Right. But It's just a thing people say. Yeah, I just don't want to.
Alright, my wife's right is here. I gotta go. Yeah. Peace out. Love you guys.
That's the other because I'm doing this full time, she is in charge. as she should be. Thank you all. Have a mm-hmm this week. We'll do more shit.
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