Ep.68 - SJO boys are back in town; Illini Football; Patrick Kane is back; the Chestnut business; China regulating AI relationships

This week at Bub’s Pub, Dan rounds up the St. Joseph boys—Scott Presley, Cory Donberger, and Doug Mangers—for a four-man podcast that somehow manages to cover lifelong friendships, sports takes, new business ventures, and the kind of headlines that make you say, “Wait, that actually happened?” The crew catches up on old times, recaps the World Cup, checks in on the Open Championship money train, celebrates Patrick Kane’s return to Chicago, and dives into Illini football with just enough optimism to be dangerous. From Josh Whitman’s big payday to Cory’s chestnut empire dreams, AI companion crackdowns, prediction-market shenanigans, Taylor Swift wedding secrecy, and the world’s tallest nutcracker, this episode has a little bit of everything—and probably at least one idea that sounded better after a drink at the pub.