It's our 500th episode! | Take The North
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What milestone are the hosts celebrating and why does it matter to Take The North listeners?
Bears fans, this is Take the North. What's the reason, Doc? It's here. With your hosts. All these guys.
Dan Wiederer. The whole key to sustaining success in this league is to have a quarterback play that is top tier and can consistently push you down those roads.
And Mark Grody. We're allowed to at this point, Bears fans are allowed to right now, dream big and predict what you want out of the season. We're going to take the North and never give it back. Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to the Take the North podcast, along with Dan Weider of The Athletic. I am Mark Grody of 104.3 The Score. Danny Boy, we are here on a very, very special day. Would you like to reveal the news to the people listening and watching to the Take the North podcast right now?
Yeah, I believe this is episode 500, all time of the Take the North podcast. I think we determined, are we going into season five? We determined this the other day, and I've already forgotten. That seems about right, given the volume and the frequency. That would make a lot of sense, right, that we've been through four already. But Studs can update us there in the chat. We'll get it right. But 500 episodes, Grody. I don't know what episode number you joined at, but 500, 500. I think it's probably 480.
Yeah, something like that. And yes, this confirmed by Studs. Again, Studs, we'd just like you to confirm that every single week if you can. We appreciate that. Just start the show by putting that in the chat. This will be our fifth season. LOL, says Adam Studzinski. So yes, that is the fifth season of the podcast. the first two of which you and David Haw created a great base for this podcast. And I was able to just jump on a speeding automobile. So it has been absolutely great to have been a listener to this podcast once upon a time. And it is my joy to be part of this podcast now. And we also love the following that we have built on this podcast. It seems to go up a little bit more every single year. So thank you sincerely.
to the people that are watching and listening and consuming and downloading this podcast every single week. We appreciate it when you like the podcast and give it a rate and review whatever people do with podcasts. I know we don't ram that stuff down people's throats, but we do appreciate it. people that actually take the time to subscribe. And like I said, to give positive reinforcement, because it is actually that positive reinforcement, which allows us to do what we do and put more resources in to what we do to make this podcast better, essentially for the people that are watching and listening, because we know that you appreciate credible bears information and opinions, which we try to give you on a weekly basis.
Nobody loves positive reinforcement more than me. And I had my, uh, I had my first annual review at The Athletic this week, Grody. I got some positive reinforcement there. It was the first annual review I've had in about eight years. They stopped doing them at the Tribune once upon a time. And so, you know, it's good. It's good little feedback, as you mentioned. So here we are. Yeah. A year into my journey there. 500 episodes into the Take the North. Milestones everywhere.
yeah and and yeah positive reinforcement is great we understand that sometimes there are disagreements that's all good too just leave out the nasty part of it but of course we're going to disagree on stuff and we could have those conversations and i love that i will just say this dan i don't know if you have one in mind because i'm just springing this on you i will lead the way on this my favorite episode still to this day with you there have been many fun episodes that we've done. We've done some fun ones recently, like singing and talking about music and you loving Creed and things like that. But still, my favorite real podcast that we did, not for good reasons necessarily, was two years ago.
Thanksgiving Day in Detroit, Matt Eberflus Eve, one of the worst Bears games of all time in terms of timeout gate and what happened during the game, what happened in the first half of the game.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What milestone are the hosts celebrating and why does it matter to Take The North listeners?
0:00–6:29
2
How did the hosts reflect on the podcast’s history and growth during the anniversary segment?
6:29–24:18
3
Which criteria are the hosts using to create their Top 10 NFL quarterbacks for next season?
24:18–38:03
4
Who do the hosts pick as the top two quarterbacks and what reasons do they give for Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes?
38:03–42:25
Speakers
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