Dan Levy

It's hard for people to consider the possibility of the team moving out of the state.

And that is like, I mean, there are opinions on every side of this.

And there is the part two where, and he joked about it, it is the Bears.

It is a massively appealing entertainment product that makes the state of Illinois very happy.

We know how much the Bears fuel

us the joy tax the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois is fueled by the the joy like I understand this is peripheral stuff it is part of it but it is part of it civic pride is real the entertainment part is real the fact that everybody loves the bit like we can all agree that we love the bears

He took away a steak dinner from you, man.

Who is paying for that right now?

Is that the entertainment tax?

That's what's paying for it right now.

So are you Marshall?

Like, you want them in Indiana if people are going to get hit with the taxes?

You sound great, man.

You sound, Mario, you are made for FM.

And Governor Pritzker does have, just addressing the other sort of part of Mario's call there,

He does have a needle to thread here, a very fine one at that, because he's right.

Part of the reason the state of Illinois is rustling up is because, not on my watch, the Chicago Bears, I don't want to be known historically as the governor who let the Bears go to Indiana.

So not on his watch, but also simultaneously, you're not going to,

raise the taxes beyond belief to the state of illinois while i do have bigger aspirations possibly or i want to leave a strong legacy in illinois so he has two things that or the state of illinois has two things that they are trying to negotiate in this stare down though don't you think there's more pressure on jb pritzker and the politicians to keep the team illinois than there is on george mccaskey and the bears to stay in illinois the

That's a great question.