Transition: Appreciating the Take The North chemistry
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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.
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.
You know what's even better than Weed Man, Spiegel, is Weed Mom. Got to know Weed Mom. Oh, no way.
They travel together sometimes, right?
When we did our big Take the North live in the Odyssey Blue Cross Blue Shield performance studio, I found out that Weed Mom was listening and she appreciated that we were keeping things rated G because that went over 100,000 watts of radio as opposed to our usual podcast where we could say bad words if the spirit moves us.
And the weed kids were also listening, probably, right? No, they don't listen at all. They don't? Your mom listens to every podcast?
Children don't listen to AM radio and podcasts?
Weed boy and weed girl. Weed boy.
A lot going on here. A lot of childhood trauma coming up.
Little weed.
They call her Little Sativa.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
Every once in a while, she's got some indica to her, though.
That's the boy. The boy is indica.
The girl is sativa. Lots of potential trauma. You guys have a beautiful thing. And when you get to know the weed mom, that's when your relationship has gone next level. That's nice.
Absolutely. I have not met her in person, but just the way Dan was talking about her, she seems like a lovely weed mom.
You don't trust me. I haven't met her in person yet, do you, Dan? Not Grody.
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.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the initial thoughts on the Take The North chemistry?
0:01–0:43
2
How do the hosts express their appreciation for their guests?
0:43–3:02
3
What is the significance of the Bears schedule release party?
3:02–4:37
4
What humorous nicknames emerge during the conversation?
4:37–7:48
5
How do the hosts reflect on their past experiences in sports media?
7:48–8:15
Speakers
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