Chapter 1: What humorous moments set the tone for this episode?
Say my name. Jesse! That got intense there, didn't it? Thanks to everybody who was a part of this show. It was a lot of fun today. Andrew Brand actually told us important information. It's always nice to go to school. Thanks to Clay Harvard. Thanks to Russell Dorsey. Thanks to Ray Diaz, Tyler Buterbaugh, Brandon Fryer, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, Max Curtis, Cody Westerlin.
Thanks to everybody who was a part of the show. Mark Grody, thanks to you for being here.
Chapter 2: What important information did Andrew Brand share?
Oh, no. Thank you. How could you say thank you to me when I want to say thank you to you? Because I'm the one doing the most talking. How can I possibly be the man when you're the man? Exactly. That was a derivative. Thanks to Dave the cat. Oh, DTC. I know. He's so fluffy. Dave Meowthius? Dave Meowthius. Oh, my goodness. That would be the name of Matt Spiegel cat, I feel like. Hi, Matt.
Hi, Lauren. Isn't River swimming back? Isn't that something that we were told during the... What did Ray tell us? Oh my gosh. That just made me think of that with Dave Matthews. Apparently. Meowthius. Meowthius. Dave Meowthius. Somebody's got to name your cat that now. People are swimming in the Chicago River again. Was that Ray? We got the, from Mayor Brandon Johnson. Yeah, don't do that.
Don't ever do that. He hasn't even gotten to the announcement yet. It's always weird when you're down like on the river walk and you see people in like the little single kayaks and it's the little rentals that are plastic and there's just like all the water in the world is just splashing all over them and you're like, that doesn't look clean. They don't know. You know what, Spiegel?
It's a little thing that I call, that I invented. Out of town stupid. Little thing. You did invent that. No, no, you did, actually. Ray, you were saying. Then he invented Gawagie. Yeah, I invented Gawagie as well. Matt Miller did that. Spiegel steals all my stuff. I do steal all your stuff. I steal your hair care. You know the birth of out of town stupid?
Birth of out of town stupid was when Art Thiel of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was on with McNeil and Boers and was laughing at them for the acquisition of Rick Meyer. He was laughing at them. Wow. And saying, I can't believe you guys got that guy. Like, did nobody do their homework? Right.
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Chapter 3: What cautionary advice was given about swimming in the Chicago River?
And I was like, are we out of town stupid on Rick Meyer? And the answer is yes. He's like, that dude on third and ten will have an open guy 12 yards downfield and throw at seven. Good luck with that guy. I've been hearing Michael McCaskey had something to do with that. Honestly, God. Really? Yeah. So you think that description just describes one former Bears quarterback, huh?
No, there's a whole big pile of them, I think. It's really, it describes us as humans. We got to make sure that we're not out of town stupid when somebody comes here. What was the one Clay said? Same, worse, the same. Oh yeah, same, better, worse. Better, worse, the same. Ray, what was the swimming thing as we talked all over you? I saw the tweet from Alice Yin of the Tribune.
Mayor Brandon Johnson has announced the return of the annual Chicago River Swim. I've never done that once. Don't do that. That sounds awful. I'm here for a lot of Mayor Johnson's initiatives to get people to love the city. Don't swim in the river. Enjoy the river. Don't swim in the river. Enjoy the river. Walk the river. Take pictures of the river. Do not swim in the river. Take the taxi boat.
That's cool. Architecture tour. It is. It feels neat. Take the architecture tour for sure. Everyone who's a resident should do it once a year. I agree. Don't swim in the river. What about once every 10 years? Because I finally went like last year. No, do it again next year. Who are we going to take? Was it Tevin Jenkins that we were going to take? Oh, that'd be perfect. I think it was Tevin.
Grossest guy. Oh, man. Hey, it's re-upped in Cleveland, man. Oh, it did? Tevin, yeah, got another one-year deal with the Cleveland Browns. I thought maybe the Jedrick Wills acquisition completes our exchange. He just talked, by the way. Jedrick Wills did? He was the first person to talk out of that. When did he get in? When did he get in? What did he say? I don't know. When did you get in?
I was just back there talking to Sean Sears. I said, who's spoken so far? And he said, just Jedrick Wills. Did he talk about having his femur reattached to his hip? No, none of that. Is that bad? That's one of the things that happened to his leg. That's how you miss a season, which he did. Hold on. But relative athletic score in 2020 draft. Where's the femur? Yeah, 2020 was a long time ago.
Shut up. No, it wasn't. The femur's up here, over by the hip. Over. I thought the femur was down. I'm confusing it with the tibia. It's a really long bone. Yeah, the tibia is down between the knee and the ankle. And he had to have that reattached femur. That doesn't seem like it's good. But the mer, there's a fee and a mer? I think so.
And for people who don't know, he's an offensive lineman for the Bears. People hear Jedrick Wills are like, who? They signed him. He was the number 10 overall pick in 2020 and played with the Browns and was hurt all of last year. Did not play a game. 2020 was a long time ago. Yeah. My friend Nafia posted something that I was like, yeah, damn right.
She said March 13th, 2020 was the last normal day. No, it wasn't. Because March 11th was... I don't know why I know this off the top of my head. March 11th was the day that I... that I had to tell NBC Sports Chicago we should probably not broadcast from the United Center concourse. We end up at West End, which is now Rinaldi's.
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Chapter 4: What initiatives did Mayor Brandon Johnson announce?
That's a wild four years. Yeah, so that's March 11th. That was March 11th, which I believe was a Wednesday. Am I correct? March 12th was Rudy Gobert touches all the recording devices day. March 13th was like, what's going on? And then it was over. I remember, was it the Big East tournament that got canceled? I was watching when they're like, you know, we're not going to play these games.
I'm like, all right, well, that seems extreme. I crowned DePaul the champion of the Big East because they won the last game in the Big East tournament before they canceled it. Oh, and David Kaplan was supposed to broadcast. He went all the way to the Garden. And then he ended up coming back. I was like, why are you? Yeah, there's nothing there. By the way, March 11th was a Wednesday yesterday.
And in 2020, March 11th was a Wednesday. That's why Fee brought it up. You have the two matching March 13th, the Friday the 13th. The glitch in the matrix. Can we just pretend like the last six years didn't happen? I don't know. I've enjoyed some things in the last six years. You're damn right you have. The Bears won a playoff game last year. Especially that last two years.
That Bears season was... Cubs won a playoff series. The Bears won a playoff game. Yeah, I mean, we can select what we want to keep. Yeah, I see where Lawrence is going. I see where Lawrence is going. The last two years of my radio life has been quite lovely. See? Oh, yeah. I used to work with you. What the hell? Well, I'm just saying. I'm just saying the last two years have been good.
Well, the way I say it, honestly, these are the best problems I've ever had. You know what I mean? With a partnership. That's actually pretty good. That's a good one. Do you mean relative to your other partners? Yes. I hate to tell you this, but you're just a good broadcast partner. Well, no, I'm just saying. Having also been your broadcast partner. Well, I appreciate it.
But like, you know, all of life, we're going to have stuff. You know, we're always going to have stuff. Our stuff is very manageable. Wouldn't you agree? No. No. Yes, I would say. Most of it is manageable. Most of it was manageable. But yes, this is very manageable. Yeah, it's always been manageable. I'd read the Spiegel book on your 100 partners in radio. I think you should write it.
Oh, it's written. Also in large print, 100 partners, and then in tiny print in radio. The chapter on Ray Diaz is a doozy. It's a freaking doozy. Oh, I know. Man, all this stuff that I've been burying for years about Ray. Ray knows where the bodies are buried. Hey, Ray. Ray's been walking all these hallways. BBM. I hope you're looking to see the air quotes. Vegan. Okay? Pescatarian now.
Pescatarian now. I'm moving the goalposts. This is the second day in a row, Mr. Spiegel, that you are flirting with our producer. And I don't like it. That's true. I feel like he's wooing you. It's upsetting Alex, too. Mr. I've had 100 partners knows how to put on the charm. Tandy is going to be out for a little while. We could use someone with some experience running a board.
Hey, you two, stop wooing. Ray, how you doing? You little hottie. What are you doing next week? You know, me and Ray, we go back a ways. I might be working on a Sunday hit and run with this guy. That's true. You told me not to worry about that. That's true. March 22, me and Ray Diaz for the debut of hit and run. Had to go down the depth chart a little bit. And then I was offered Ray.
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Chapter 5: How did the hosts reflect on their past experiences during the pandemic?
Like I think of that so many times for different things. Have you guys heard? Sex to save the friendship. Yeah, that's right. Exactly. Have you guys heard the Spiegel and Holmes promo that we do for you guys? Do you know how much energy we put into that thing? I really like it. Thank you. I really like it and I appreciate it. I haven't heard it yet. Listen to Spiegel and Holmes. They told us.
Remember how we do the ones for Molly and I? Yeah, absolutely. It's the cross-promote one. Tyler, can you call that up? Can we hear that? I will just preface this by saying we were in the studio, Layla and I, and they told us to get really lots of energy, guys. I might have overdone it, but I think I sound ridiculous, but if you guys like it, that's great. Do we have it? I'm sure he'll find it.
It's fine. It's not important. We got the gist of it. You better listen to them at 2 o'clock. Yeah. Oh, here it is. We got it. This is you guys promoting. Good job, Tyler. Spiegel and Holmes, always talking Chicago sports. Is that good enough? That's too much. That's the outtake. That's probably a little much. Spiegel and Holmes. All right. Spiegel and Holmes. You know what? Just run them all.
I like all of those. I didn't know we had the outtakes. That's amazing. All right, so what's better? Those outtakes from Grody's or Ozzy's outtakes when he did the blue shoe commercials with Danny? Always Ozzy. Those are pretty great. How have I never heard about this? Oh, Layla. Or Dave Wonstad. Well, I guess I don't. I do want the last six years to have happened. Dot.
Dot com dot is my favorite. Yeah, that's really good. Dot com. I need to add an extra dot here. Russ is like, oh, no, no, you know, Russ trying to be as nice as he possibly can. No, you don't have to do that.
A friend of mine who owns a recording studio has the outtakes of Jack Brickhouse in his dotage trying to fight his way through one of the last commercial reads he ever did and just spitting into a cup for like the entirety of the 45 minute session. And he told me, like, the cup was basically full as Jack was trying to get a dry mouth.
And I was howling while we listened to it, and he will not give it to me. He will not give it up. So I just describe it every chance I get. Didn't you also do, like, a behind-the-scenes or, like, some sort of recent, like, yes, I am the voice of the Felco commercial interview? No. No, maybe. For some reason, you came up and the Felco thing on my social media feed, and I forget why.
Oh, it could be Tom Loxus with his podcast, The Lore. Yeah, I was one of the first guests on his new podcast. Check out The Lore, L-O-R-E, wherever you get your podcasts. Yeah, and the Felco thing came up. And yes, if you've been watching TV and you're like, that sounds like Speaks, it is. For quality windows, siding, and doors. He's doing it! He's doing it! It's like I'm right here in the room.
Oh my God, he's doing the thing! It is pretty cool, though, Speaks. It is what it is. I know. I get that part. You live a long life, you know? We like Russ Armstrong over here. It's a Russ Armstrong house. Damn right it is. I mean, mine actually is. Yours actually is. My sister's is. My sister-in-law's is. It's been delightful. Yeah. Save me on heating and air conditioning costs.
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