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Chapter 1: What are the initial thoughts on the Take The North chemistry?
you know, clean up your place, might have to buy a new mattress, you know, the whole thing.
You just Still somewhat disturbing to hear. Thanks to our guests. Thanks to Ian Happ. Thanks to Russ Dorsey who was just in studio for an hour with us. The Relay with Russ Dorsey podcast is out. And thanks to Ben Ingram, the Braves Radio Network play-by-play announcer, co-host of From the Braves Booth podcast.
Thanks to our producers, Ray Diaz, Tyler Buterbaugh, Tyler Ferengul helped us out today. Thanks to Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, And Max Curtis, along with Cody Westerlin for always helping us out on the socials. And we are happy to bring in.
Chapter 2: How do the hosts express their appreciation for their guests?
Our crew of Matt Spiegel and Dan Weterer today. So the Take the North podcast is in the house together. Our transition is brought to you by Torque Coatings, high-performance coatings for your home or business. TorqueCoatings.com. How does this work? Do we have a fight? What happens?
No, I think we have a love fest. The Take the North guys are here together. Like, I can feel the chemistry just emanating towards me from here.
It's awesome. I could feel it. Yeah, it's always present. Should we?
Yeah. All right, let's just do the podcast, man. Let's do our Bears schedule release party right now, Weed Man.
Let's get right into it here. Weed Man. Are we good with Weed Man?
He's in a studio that's behind a wall.
I like Weed. I'm a Weed fan. We go Weedsy. We go Weedsy, but we're really just playing off of Big Z.
It's funny because people that know me at different stages of my life get offended by the new nicknames that come up on the air in places. They're like, I can't handle hearing them call you X, Y, or Z. And so I'm like, well, you just have to deal with it. So what's the original nickname?
Weed is the original.
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the Bears schedule release party?
No, I wouldn't trust her.
No, I would not trust her either.
Here's the thing, though, is that they are in sync. Never forget John Greenberg's picture of you two after the playoff game, and then somebody appropriately said, get you somebody who looks at you the way Mark Grody looks at Dan Weterer. I don't remember that shot.
Iconic shot in Chicago sports history.
It really is. Like Jerome Holtzman next to Don Zimmer back in the day in the Cubs. Have you guys ever seen that one? Jerome Holtzman's eyebrows inventing the save right there in the picture.
The one thing people in Chicago will always remember about that playoff victory over the Packers is Grody interviewing me for the Take the North podcast in the tunnel. I mean, that's certainly the lasting image of that night.
Honestly, that was thrilling, though, man. Just because they finally won a playoff game and you're going to go do all your athletic duties and I wasn't going to have you on the podcast. So we're like, why don't we do an immediate weedsy reaction, us in the tunnel just having come out fresh out of the locker.
That was fresh stuff, man. I know it's an audio medium, but maybe Connor can find the Jerome Holtzman and Don Zimmer photo from 1989. Yeah, Layla, come on over. It's one of the all-time pictures in the history of Chicago sports right there. Them two sitting next to each other, the old scribe and the old salt manager. But I need to see this shot of you two.
We've got four hours together. We'll find it.
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Chapter 4: What humorous nicknames emerge during the conversation?
I mean, I think, can we finally get a report today that would close the book on Thermosgate?
So we did. So Carm sneakily on a Saturday in a news dump. posted a video on chgo where he walks up with of course if you spill coffee you must bring more coffee so he's got two tanks of coffee in each hand from duncan and then uh and then who sidles up to mess with him out of the background if it isn't the take the north podcast
Just screaming, ruining the CHGO video as best we could. Because that's what our MO is every single day, whether Grody subscribes to it or not.
Haters gonna hate it. Half yard line. He loves them a good half yard line story. That was the weed man.
Everybody loves the intimate reso. You two just have to walk together everywhere? Is that the deal?
No, we actually pulled up at the light together. And Grody kind of gave me an evil eye. For the first two seconds, you think it's a stranger, and you're ready to yell some bad words at him. And then I saw it was him. I tried to sideswipe him, and then we just pulled into the house.
Here's what happened in the pre-show meeting, and I suspect it's going to happen throughout the show, which is that every sports conversation ended up at a Bears tidbit we've been dying to ask Dan Weterer about. You know what I mean? Like, hey, how about those socks? Yeah, the Royals thing, everything. But anyway, so yeah, the mayor doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, does he?
You guys been hearing about this Jordan Vandenberg?
Right. Is he a soul snatcher? All conversational roads are going there. Absolutely.
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Chapter 5: How do the hosts reflect on their past experiences in sports media?
We'll do Ben's vision at 3 o'clock. Ben Johnson's vision. Which rookies are going to start and how soon? We will discuss that. Yes, some Sox Royals. Yes, some Cubs Braves. Anthony Heron on how a defensive coordinator and others can coach guys up better. From one year to the next, since that's what they say they're going to do. And much, much more. Alex is here. Tanny's open. Gets us rolling.
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