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Speaker 1: So, Nigel, if the Bears become a team in the

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Speaker 1: state of Indiana, are you going to be a Bears fan?

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Speaker 2: I know you're a Colts guy. Are you going to

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Speaker 2: become a Bears guy? I don't care about the Bears.

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Speaker 2: I care about the people of Hammond, Indiana. Uh, even

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Speaker 2: though I was bullied as a kid when I was

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Speaker 2: staying there with my old man in the summer.

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Speaker 1: Tara Hastings says, those must have been people from South Hammond.

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Speaker 3: Really, is that's her region? Yes, that's her region.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 3: My old man had a.

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Speaker 5: Train route, worked for CSX and and Conrail, and for

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Speaker 5: you know, summers up there. I would go stay with

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Speaker 5: him for a couple of weeks. And I was there

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Speaker 5: by myself sometimes and I got like shoved around by

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Speaker 5: some street tufts, some some hoods.

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Speaker 3: They have a toothpick in their mouth where they flipping

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Speaker 3: a nickel.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was, I had they were They had a

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Speaker 5: two by four that they were a beating against their

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Speaker 5: hand machine, wearing jackets, and like they started shoving me

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Speaker 5: around in the record I was just checking out records

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Speaker 5: and tapes and CDs, and I remember I don't know

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Speaker 5: what retail story I was at I'll never forget that

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Speaker 5: though I did have a skater's jean jacket on. I

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Speaker 5: had a jean jacket with like Powell and Plaralta and

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Speaker 5: Steve Cavallero, and like I was a skater back then,

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Speaker 5: So maybe that had something to do with it, But no,

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Speaker 5: in in general, I don't I hope the Bears come

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Speaker 5: to Hammond, even though they're still going to be known

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Speaker 5: as the Chicago Bears, right, correct, I mean.

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Speaker 1: Anybody thinks they're going to be called the Indiana Bears

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Speaker 1: or ham And Bears, that ain't happening.

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Speaker 3: They will still be the Chicago Bears. Now.

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Speaker 1: Earlier today I heard Tony Katz talking about this with

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Speaker 1: Governor Brown.

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Speaker 3: When he went on with him.

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Speaker 1: The question still remains whether the games will just be

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Speaker 1: played in the state of Indiana at this potential news stadium,

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Speaker 1: or is the entire franchise moving to Indy where their

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Speaker 1: offices and practice facility and all of their employees have

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Speaker 1: to report to the state of Indiana. There's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a difference there. So I do like what

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Speaker 1: Governor Braun had to say. He kind of tempered all

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Speaker 1: of these early reports saying Dune deal the Bears are moving.

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Speaker 1: Governor Braun was like, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not final yet,

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Speaker 1: because I'm telling you right now, no politician in Illinois,

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Speaker 1: whether it's Governor fat Pig or that moron that's their mayor,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson, they don't want to go down in history

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Speaker 1: as the governor or mayor that lost the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: The Bears have all the leverage here because people loved

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Speaker 1: them in Chicago. Like Saturday Night Live made a skit

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Speaker 1: about how much Bear.

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Speaker 3: Fans mean to that community. Dub Bears.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I love Chris Farley having a heart attack. They

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Speaker 5: having to mitigate their you know, hit their fist against

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Speaker 5: their chest when they're having a heart attack. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 5: a great skit. And I think the Chicago Bears. Man,

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Speaker 5: if I had to guess, Indiana's pulling out all the stops,

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Speaker 5: I don't know if it's going to work or not.

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Speaker 1: Chicago is going to have to find Jesus at the

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Speaker 1: last minute, and I feel like they're going to because

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Speaker 1: these politicians they don't want to go with down in history.

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Speaker 1: Is the one that lost the Bears here is Chicago's mayor.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Johnson is.

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Speaker 6: My face streak. Okay, all right, keep a straight face here.

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Speaker 6: The Bears belong in the city of Chicago. The Chicago

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Speaker 6: Bears belong in the city of Chicago, right, And I've

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Speaker 6: said repeatedly that the door is always opened for conversations,

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Speaker 6: you know, and you know, you know, Kevin Warren, you

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Speaker 6: call me yesterday. We didn't get a chance to connect,

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Speaker 6: you know. And I still firmly believe that their best

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Speaker 6: position is in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: And it's evidence.

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Speaker 6: The evidence is speaking for itself.

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Speaker 1: Did you catch that, though? Did you catch why Chicago

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Speaker 1: is losing this fight?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 1: The mayor of Chicago says that the main player of

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Speaker 1: the Bears, Kevin Warren, calls me.

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Speaker 3: We didn't have a chance to connect. I missed his call. Like,

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Speaker 3: what do you have right now, Brandon Johnson?

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Speaker 1: That's so much more important than keeping the Bears in Chicago?

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Speaker 3: Uh not, forget about that, the late great Dinny Green.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts on the Bears possibly coming to Indiana.

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Speaker 4: The Bears or who we thought they were, it is.

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Speaker 4: That's why we took the damn field. Now, if you

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Speaker 4: want to crown them, they crown their ass. But they

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Speaker 4: are who we thought they were, and we got about

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Speaker 4: the hook.

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Speaker 1: One of the things I'm hearing is that Governor Braun

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Speaker 1: and the leaders of this group of Indiana are appealing

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Speaker 1: to the bears brass, look at our property tax compared

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Speaker 1: to yours.

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Speaker 3: Now, mind you, ours rural is not perfect.

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Speaker 1: There aren't many states where you can say, hey, we

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Speaker 1: just passed a relief package where everybody's still pissed off

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Speaker 1: than Indiana.

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Speaker 3: But compared to what fat Pig's.

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Speaker 1: Doing to these people over in Illinois, they're starting to think, well, maybe,

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Speaker 1: just maybe we need to bring our front office there,

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Speaker 1: we need to put our practice facility there.

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Speaker 3: And I hope this happens for Hammond. Worst case scenario, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's the thing. They stayed in Chicago. That's the worst

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Speaker 3: case scenario.

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Speaker 5: No, But for Hammond, the people of Indiana.

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Speaker 1: They are going down swinging, man. They're making Chicago work

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Speaker 1: for it. They came to the table like it feels

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Speaker 1: like this happens all the time, where franchises threaten to

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Speaker 1: move but they don't really mean it. Chicago put a

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Speaker 1: stadium package together, they got the governor involved, the State

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Speaker 1: House involved, They're ready to go, and they're putting all

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Speaker 1: the pressure in the world on that moron Brandon Johnson

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Speaker 1: and Governor Fat Pig