Transition with Grote & Ramirez

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1:01Most of all the listening on this Friday the 4th of September the beginning of Labor Day weekend. Thank you to our video producer Jacob Stutz who gets us on the twitch stream and does all the video cutting and editing and all those things and thank you to our executive producer Dustin Rhodes. The teammate who never shuts up even in the huddle. Yada Walker. Yada Walker. You hear Jada Walker when you wake up. You hear him when you go to bed. You hear him when you go to sleep. I think I hear his voice right now. I mean you hear him in the locker room as soon as you get to locker room. You gotta love that. There's always that one guy right? That one guy in every huddle. That was me. That was you. I was always loud. I was always talking trash. Let's go. They could have branded friar. Who's the smartest football mind in the locker room? I probably gotta go Joe Tune. 14 year vet. No, no, no, Case Kingdom. Let's go Case Kingdom for the 20 year.

2:03He's already coaching his kids. He's gotta have started everybody. That, of course, was Caleb Williams on the Hot Ones, which is really worth your time. 20 minute interview really well done. And Sean Evans was the host of that Illinois grad shot. And local guy, you think you can get me on hot ones? I think you could probably get yourself on hot ones. I'll eat one. I'll eat some hot wings with you. You know, I love the wings. I'll eat some hot hot ones. Let's do it. Let's do it. Right now, let's go out to Gurney Mills at Rally House, where we find our guys in the Rahimi and Grote show today. Mark Grote and Gabri Miras in for Leila. Morning guys. How you doing? I'm doing great. We are doing great. Yeah, we are right inside Rally House at Gurney Mills Mall. And we are just, we are amongst Chicago sportsness in here. It is like the greatest, most wide open sports closet you could walk into here with bare stuff.

3:05Bare stuff everywhere. It probably looks like Jare Payton's closet. Does Gabe have on his Miguel Vargas jersey yet? And Grody, what are you looking for? Ian Half or PCA? Well, actually, I'll tell you, he is wearing a white socks jersey. I don't know, is there a name? I don't believe, no, no, no. I go blank on the back with this classic one, just because you know too many changeovers. Yesterday, I was wearing my Frank Tosh. Yeah, you were. He had a big nice looking 35. Yes, sir. Okay. Strong with Miguel Vargas, David. No, I think it's great. You had a good rapport with him. You spoke, you, I mean, you guys had the connection during the interview and all the things. I know that game. Yes, yes, my broken Spanish came through well with Miguel during that interview. It was awesome. I just wonder how many different ways, Gabe, are you going to find to support the Cubs today? I really want to know that as a socks guy, you were really pro-Cub yesterday. I appreciated that. You know, I got to be honest, you know, David Haw is an avid listener, a P1 of the score. And so yesterday when I was giving my praise and trying to, you know, talk some Cubs fans off the cliff regardless of where they were at in the standings,

4:05David Haw text me during the show. I said, I love your optimism. You know, David, you need some of it. That's what it is. I still don't know how genuine your optimism is. You sound like my brother. Yeah. Is your brother a Cubs fan? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I, because you turned this trick a lot. Okay, here's what I did. This is what happened. This is what I said. I said, what's the, what I said? How far are the Cubs going to go? This is the conversation I yesterday with my brother. How far are the Cubs going to go? When at least one playoff, so you can get. Okay, yeah, that's what I said. And I said the reason why. I said, they'll go, the least one the first round. I was like, and they might push it. They may have the same exact fate as they had last year. And I said, why? I said, because their team isn't good enough to win the World Series. And he said, ah, there it is. There it is. And I said, he's like, you're a hater. And I'm like, I'm not a hater. I'm being a realist. You said this at Grote. He just said the same thing. He says that it's okay. I say it. I'm a hater. That's not fair. I know that there is. It's like the Emperor in Star Wars. I know there's a dark side to you. I know. Come on. Join. Just let it out, man. Kevin Galsman yesterday. Give us the cold red.

5:06He's so amazing. See, see, see, see. But he did. He entered a Cubs fan. That's what you do. I found a very compelling game. Very good. You're good at it, though. You know, it is, Ha, A, he insists upon himself. B, he overcompensates. Because he's a socks fan who doesn't want the Cubs fans to think he hates them. And then don't forget. I learned all of this from work, Grote. Yeah. Yeah. Grote. I know the game playbook. I know how he operates. You do. Yeah, I got it. All right. Yeah. I know. You work with Gabe enough, yeah. Yeah. Jeffers John yesterday was amazing. I see. You know what? I stopped. Yeah, right? He's back. Right. Jeffers John is back. Ryan Rollison is back, baby. Hey, gross. It all, yeah. Yes, sir. Hey, man, you know, you know, I love you, right, man? You know, I love you. I hope so. I hope so. It means a lot to me that you love me. So I hope you're being genuine. I am genuine. But you know what? I got to say what's up to my man, Gabe, man. What's up, boy? Jared, what up, man? We haven't had a chance to really, you know, that's what's up. I didn't get one of these hugs you've been talking to.

6:07That's what I'm saying. I didn't get one of these yet. I want to get a flat jacket before you might need to get the rim guard. It's up now, baby. It's going down. Ryan Portth is here right now. Literally when you gave him a hug, you may have bruised a rib to the point where he didn't want any touching for any of us. Yeah. Yeah. No, but it is good to hear from you. Portth is, no, no, he's a tough guy. All right. You know, Portth's a tough guy. What we got in the show? We got to go. We got to go. Oh, yeah. Thanks for producing their producer, Gabe. I appreciate that. How did you guys go in the show? I'm a feeling, but I'm a feeling, but I listen to the shows. I know how they work. Gabe, Gabe's like, since he got here, he's been trying to keep things moving. Which I can't do hour long meetings. Yeah. Yeah. He made sure our show meeting was over in 17 minutes today. I think in part because he had to find the facility, which we thought we had lost him for a while. Yeah, yeah, we are. Yes, we are broadcasting live from Rally House in Gernie Mills until 2 p.m. First time we'll tell you everything about what's going on here,

7:07some opportunities for you to win stuff, and why you should come here and hang out with us in Gernie Mills Mall. And as we're speaking right now, they are literally, they're opening the store right now. Yeah, many of them. Welcome. And there's two Bears fans walking in. Bears. As we speak, what's going on? We had bears. Bears. Bears. Very good. So we've got our Bears fans, friends, walking in here. We are going to talk about Gabriel Mirrors' precious cubs in the first segment of the show, because he wanted to. Again, he is subplottered. So good. We will reexamine the Luis Castillo trade. Could there have been a better option? Maybe somebody, maybe Reed Detmer's, anybody been watching what Reed Detmer's has been doing lately. So we'll get into that with the White Sox in the first hour. James Big Cat Williams will join us at 11 o'clock today. That is going to be great. Always love talking to the former right tackle of the Chicago Bears. More bears with Kevin Fishbane at one before that. Vinnie Duh. Minus. 1225. And one thing I am looking forward to is

8:09to perhaps getting closure on the final play of the bear season from last year. That was the interception that was intended for DJ Moore from Caleb Williams. I have some pretty exclusive quotes from Caleb Williams that we will break down. We'll have Gabe put a psychology hat on. So we will do that towards the end of the show today and have all sorts of fun out here on Rahimi and Grote with Gabe Ramirez at the Rally House at Gurney Mills Mall. Have a great show. Have fun, guys.