Does anyone else think Danny's wine commercial is a scam? It all sounds ridiculous. Then him saying he got this sweet deal just for the listeners is some great WYC material. He could give a shit about the listeners.

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The only scam I see is Terry Boers pouring this (leftover wine the big companies think is great but would rather give away to Maddux Boy and other apes) into juice boxes and handing it out as Jesus Juice to the kids in his basement.

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The business model does make sense and I'm sure it's worth it unless you're the kind of wine snob who doesn't want to get caught buying Costco wine. It's better than buying a jug of Inglenook from Walgreen's.

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Is it, though?

I dont think its a scam, it's like every other ad on the Score, the person reading it is getting paid or a kickback.

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By a nose. And yeah, I'm sure Dan is getting endorsement fees for this, as well he should; he has more tied to this than Mitera asking him to come in and voice a spot.

Does anyone else enjoy the really awkward Jason Thomas/Toyota Prius endorsements? "You can get, like, 40 miles a gallon, which is totally great, because, like, gas isn't something you wanna spend money on if you don't have to. No one has ever been like 'I wanna spend some money on some gas.' And in my Toyota Prius I can drive to, like, Minnesota and go ice fishing...if I had any interest in ice fishing, which I don't, but if I did, I could, but I won't, but what I could do is I could go to Minneapolis and see Bob Mould and Low at First Avenue, if that were a show, aaaaand if it were, it'd be totally awesome and I'd definitely be there, in my Toyota Prius, but I'm speaking hypothetically. As far as I know. I'll have to check later or something. Maybe. New Sharon Van Etten in the next set."

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dan has his limits though.... becase if you recall they had tannehill doing the reads for the fantasy football website during their show... i guess dan's stated position that he hates fantasy sports killed that paycheck

Is this any different than when Kirkland puts its label on some overstock of bourbon, vodka or any other product?

Not a scam but who gives a shit.

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Costco isn't private labeling overstocks. They are commissioning distillers to make a product for them and labeling it as such.
The wine thing would be like Mercedes making more cars than they could sell and then Chevrolet buying up the surplus and putting the Chevy nameplate on them.
By the way, any commercial you hear that says to type in a name or a code is giving a commission to the station or to the announcer reading the spot.
The fact that Dan says he talked the wine company owner into making up this deal to help out WSCR listeners is totally preposterous.

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What is the difference? I ask that with a straight face as I really do not know. It is my understanding it is the same product. If so, they only difference would seem to be an intent to overproduce versus it occurring by accident.

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It's likely wine that is considered subpar and therefore not selling well or even worse, something they don't want their name associated with.

Basically, you are getting the bottom percentage of quality. A subpar wine from a nice winery doesn't give you an advantage over a name brand wine from a cheaper brand name.

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Yes, just proves that Dan is corporate whore like the rest of them.

Just like the Tavern Tour - 'this random bar in some random far western suburb that ISN'T Roscoe Village and I'm far too cool and far too Jewish to be in - has the best hamburgers on the planet. This bar is located in some suburb that I've most likely railed on before as being racist because every suburb that isn't on the North Shore is racist and names their high school teams after offensive Indian stereotypes. Please come out to random bar in random racist suburb and enjoy a cold Bud Lite'.

Bernstein then goes home to his cool neighborhood and has a long pillow talk with the wife 'Oh, honey, it was terrible. Terrible, I tell you. There were all these fat racist people there doing tomahawk chops and avoiding black people. And they made me say good things about Bud Light. I tried to sneak a Persimmon Valley Craft Brewed Pumpkin Spice Pale Ale, but they insisted on Bud Light'

'Oh, Dan, I know honey. It was an awful day for me to. We got an inquiry to plan a wedding and it was for - get this, a heterosexual Christian couple. Just terrible. I cried the rest of the day'.

His street isnt that cool.....and nothing to really walk to from his place.

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Like Dan Akroyd when he wakes up from his flu induced sleep in Trading Places

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What street exactly? Not in a stalker way, but in a curious way. I ask because I grew up in the area (on Patterson) and also went to Gordon Tech too.

Seems like lots of stuff is walking distance.

I don't know which street exactly and if I did I wouldn't give it out, but it's somewhere around WGN and Lane Tech, from stuff he's talked about.

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Please tell me you are still in high school.

High school was almost 30 years ago for me. Whatever impressions people do or don't have about any high school are completely irrelevant to me.

WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING IT UP THEN? I EXPECT THE POMPOUS DIPSHITS FROM ST. IGNATIUS AND FENWICK TO CONSTANTLY MENTION THEIR SCHOOLS BUT YOU GRADUATED AS A PLUMBER'S HELPER.

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Cigar companies do this as well. I can buy seconds or leftovers from a major cigar brand, but you never know which brand. Some are good, some aren't..

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Whiskey, wine, Scotch, barrel aged beer, cigars, cigarettes are made by blending the ingredients. When one of the blending batches is too strong or too weak, others may go unused to compensate and maintain the quality. That leftover is not good enough or there isn't enough for some to put their name on but they will offload it to others who can claim it is a good quality of wine. Costco and others will commission someone to make a private label for them but that is a product that is slightly inferior by design.

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You are aware that you aren't interesting or funny, right?

AntiCrewMult is hilarious.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

That is not the case with the Kirkland Vodka in the tall bottle. That stuff is as good as grey goose, and it is rumored to be made by grey goose.

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Gordon Tech has the better rock stars though. We've got Bill Meehan, Mike O'Connell, Camilo Gonzalez, Santiago Durango, and dare I say, yours truly. Fenwick has Nasti Habits.

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With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Freddy Jones band members also.

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Wait really? I had no idea that Camilo and Santiago went to Gordon. Funny, I was a huge Naked Raygun fan (probably saw them 15+ times over the years).

Mike O'Connell was 3 years older than me but graduated with my brother. I saw R.O.T.A. play a number of gigs - including Igloo, Club Stodola, The Rusty Nail, etc back in the day - when they were a hardcore band ('Child! Adult!) with that guy that went on to be in White Zombie. Before they became the schlock Kiss thing (which I really liked).

I graduated with Steve Amella who was in a cool hardcore band called Insolent Respect - did a good gig with Corrosion of Conformity at The Bank on Lincoln if I recall correctly. Then there was that Jeff guy (tall long hair dude) who played bass in Impulse Manslaughter and went on to replace Joe Losurdo in a bizarre incarnation of Life Sentence. I also think there was a guy who had a cup of coffee (drums maybe?) with Fat Ted and the boys in Generation Waste.

Ah, I miss the old hardcore days....

Meehan, Durango, and Gonzalez were two or three years ahead of me. They started what I consider the first real punk band in Chicago, Silver Abuse. When we were in high school they ran an alternative Student Council ticket with a real burnout named Michael Oakleaf for president. I think they probably won, but those Resurrectionist preists and brothers weren't having it and gave the election to the usual dorks.

I didn't know Birdshit was a Gordon guy. Hell, I didn't even know Amella was his last name. Were you at the show we played with Insolent Respect at the Latvian Club on Elston?

I also didn't know Jeff Hauck was in Impulse Manslaughter. They were always changing bass players and singers at the beginning. Glen Herman doesn't like to talk about the fact that they started out as a schlocky metal band in my friend Rich's attic on Richmond. They were called Asmodeus. I still remember one of their lyrics:

Asmodeus
or Lucifer
Whichever, you prefer
The name is Satan
Come, sinful one
Hell is waiting

Have you seen my Rock and Roll thread? You might find some of it interesting:

viewtopic.php?f=84&t=59049

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don