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Transition: What's your biggest concern about Bears' matchup against Rams?
14 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What are the biggest concerns about the Bears' matchup against the Rams?
You should not have had a problem with the Brewers and their L flag, okay? You should not have had a problem with Aaron Rodgers saying, I own you. You should not have a problem with Ben Johnson's cold handshake or saying, F the Packers. Trash talk in sports is good. Less hate in the world, more hate in sports.
He's Danny Parkins, and he approves that message. This is Rahimi Harrison-Grody on 670 The Score. Thanks to Danny, one of our guests today. Thanks to Olin Cruz for joining us. Thanks to Mike Florio. Thanks to Mark Grody for joining us from Hollis Hall. And thanks to everybody who was a part of this one. Ray Diaz, Tyler Biederbaugh, Brandon Fryer, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis.
Big thanks also to Courtney Turner, who gave us the backdrop of the day with the Sonoma looks in the background from Wine Country.
Chapter 2: How does trash talk influence sports culture?
Now we've got to figure out what other family event of Courtney Turner's we have to disrupt. So we'll get on that. Yeah, absolutely. And now we get to see Lawrence Holmes and Carmen Vitale in studio. Hey, guys. Hi.
What's happening? What y'all got going on?
A lot's going on, man.
What you been got going on?
It's like the afterglow of a Bears-Packers week, but we got another game to talk about. Is today TTP Industries? Are we good?
Well, we're... Turn the Page Industries has decided that we're going to turn the page tomorrow. But you know how sometimes you open a book and you just check the chapters? Okay. Carmen's going to check the next chapter for us. She's not going to turn the page, but she's going to check the next chapter and let us choose our own adventure tomorrow.
She has definitely gone through the table of contents.
Yes. She is going to help us with some subheadings in the table of contents on the next chapter.
Just to Just a short little thing. Not a full preview, not a full turn the page, but just kind of a peek. And we're going to do it towards the end of the show.
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Chapter 3: What insights do Laurence Holmes and Carmen Vitali share about the Bears' performance?
You want to see from quarter one through quarter four so they maybe don't have to do all of the crazy heroic stuff in quarter four.
Yeah, that's fair. What's your word? Thirteen. Thirteen. Oh, I like that. And probably not in the way you think. So we'll see. We're going to talk about it. Okay. That's a tease. Did we turn the chapter? That is what you call in the industry, ladies and gentlemen, a tease.
A tease. It's definitely a tease. Yeah, so Carmen's in for speaks today while he finishes Hell Week. Do we know the actual dates of each event? I think it was yesterday and today. Okay. Hell Week. Yes.
His wife and his child's birthday. Hell Week is usually referred to like two days at a training camp in like 100 degree weather or something.
The military. Yeah. Stuff like that.
Or even like your Orange Theory Hell Week.
Yes. I know that they do Hell Week.
Is that a thing? Yeah, they do Hell Week. I have enough friends that do Orange Theory that like, yeah.
I went to an Orange Theory class while I was in Philly, and I was like, oh, this is why I don't do Orange Theory.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of starting strong in a football game?
I'm here for everything that Ben Johnson wants to do in that whole thing.
That's my favorite thing about Whataboutism. You can shape it to your own narrative every time. Every single time. But yeah, I'm excited about this weekend. Really, I would say overly, but no, I think I'm appropriately excited for what's about to happen this weekend.
Well, these are exciting times. These are what I like to call the fun times. All the time that you spend doing sports radio, most of the time, especially in Chicago, things have been pretty bad. But... Over the last six months, things have been all right. The Cubs have been good. They went to the playoffs. They had an exciting playoff season.
And now it's the Bears, the unifying force that is the Bears with the entire city. And that's fun. And you saw it play out. You saw it play out Saturday night and Sunday. People just being happy.
crazy isn't it yes how a sports team can affect the psyche of an entire community slash township slash city slash region because we're talking about chicagoland like we're it it's incredible how you you're so not used to this much success from the bears that to get it rolling like this and now just the general mood is just so much more positive in every single thing that you do
It's so funny because it's in January, too, where, like, this is the month that's known for, like, gray. I mean, it is. It's gray skies. There's been on and off snow today. Everybody's like, hold up. They don't want to do anything. They don't want to go out. They don't want to socialize. Everybody's just miserable in January. But that's not the case this year. All right, Carmen. We get it.
I have a January birthday, Lawrence, okay? Nobody ever wants to do anything for me. Wait, what's your birthday?
it was january 3rd oh it's like the worst birthday thank you i'm sorry no but but carmen was talking about this in the meeting how like she's got one of the birthdays where you know people who spend all their money on christmas and new year's they're doing dry january they're sick they're going back to work they're going back to school like nobody ever wants to like do anything you get the christmas birthday present i get the christmas i get the one present i get the combo present i basically have the opposite of your birthday
My birthday is right around Memorial Day weekend. So it's either on Memorial Day weekend or the Friday.
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Chapter 5: How do injuries affect team dynamics and strategy?
but it's gonna be amazing and I'm very excited. So.
But that's normal, right?
Oh my God, yeah.
It's normal, but it's also international.
Yeah, it's international. We're getting married in Italy, but like, and both of us too are going through playoffs right now. So it's like, this is the time where you'd like buckle down and make all these micro decisions and do all this. And like, I'm dealing with his schedule where he's, I mean, he jumped on an emergency pod yesterday because Mike Tomlin gets let go.
And so it's like, it's a crazy time to also have to be busy with planning such a big event. But I'm not here to say woe is me because we're lucky enough to be getting married and we're lucky enough to be getting married in Italy. I'm very excited about it.
As you should be.
I'm smiling thinking about it.
It is. It's really nice. It's nice to see like during the breaks, like the last time that Carmen was here, she's like, okay, I got to do this, this, this, this, this, this, and this. And then we come back.
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Chapter 6: What role does community sentiment play in sports success?
That's why I love Rosner because Rosner was always ā he just would always go to the back of the room. Yeah. And he'd be chomping on his cigar and writing his copy like so Rosner-y. Like you'd walk past him like, oh, that's totally Barry Rosner because no one else is as Rosner-y as that.
They are ā a lot of ā some of the new stadiums are bringing back beer in the press box after games and like alcoholic beverages like ā I know SoFi does that for, I'm pretty sure it's for Rams games. I think Pittsburgh is, like, that's not a new stadium, but they're starting to do, like, you see more. Or what is it called?
Accresure. Yeah. Okay, that's definitely new since I left. Mike Tomlinfield. That's what they should name it.
But don't quote me on the Pittsburgh thing, but there are a few stadiums now around the league that are starting to like bring back the alcoholic beverages after like, you know, as you're working. And I'm like, that's, do you know how far that goes with people that have to work games? If you just give them a beer after they're done with a majority, let them take one in kegs on tap.
Yeah. But, but yes, there's a heavy, but on the back end of that, there was a price.
There was very much a price. Well, and the other thing is that you would understand why teams don't do it because they don't want to be responsible for you leaving.
Responsible if you have too many and then you leave and then you drive.
That's why I think Major League Baseball, you can't drink on the planes anymore, right? Isn't that the... Is that true?
I know that they stopped serving liquor, hard liquor on a lot of the planes. I think you saw beer, but you can't have liquor.
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