Transition with Rahimi & Grote

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1:07I just wrapped the video call, uploading this giant file on my tablet, looking at my watch group and Nana's with the group chat, and of course, still lining up tonight's playlist on my phone. All at once? Yep, story of my life. That's why I switched to T-Mobile. They have the fastest 5G network. Okay, multi-tasker. I see you. Honestly, I never imagined I could do all this at once. It's awesome. Say no more, I'm totally switching. My post is taking way too long to upload. That's a sign you've got to get T-Mobile. So many reasons to join T-Mobile. Find yours at T-Mobile.com. Fastest based on analysis by Uglospeed Distant Intelligence Theatre of National Speed School Results incorporating 5G download and upload speeds for the first half of 2026. We're team in transition. Welcome back to Ton Patent Chicago Sports Radio 1043

2:08the score broadcasting live from the 100 sport studios. Brought to you by your local Hyundai dealers. It has been a fun Friday, a football Friday. Ruthie Plynski has been in for Jared and we have had a ton of fun. Flute by. It did go fast. Flute by we had some really good guests. We had some really good predictions. And we had Dustin. So stop. Steve Duffett. I know. He's not even there to redeem himself. We want to thank everybody who texted, who called, and who contributed to the program. Most of all, thank you for listening on this Friday, September 11th. Sombre Day we talked about earlier. It means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For many different reasons. And happy Jewish New Year. To everyone. So not too bad. Exactly. Thank you. Tune in. Wishing everyone a sweet New Year. It's been, it's going to be a fantastic weekend ahead. You got the Cubs and Socks Plain and Mini Full Series. And we have the Bears obviously opening Sunday against the Panthers in North Carolina. Thank you to Jacob Stutz, our video producer.

3:09And thank you to. We love them. Our executive producer Dustin Rhodes. I think if you're picking the Panthers, you need to like not. Be a Bears fan. Interesting. Thank you Brandon Farrell. I took that personally, man. She's a star. Brandon. Ruthie Polinsky. It's over. It's over. Ruthie broke into song before the Chicago lead. When we were waiting to go on, right? And you just sang the national anthem. What prompted that? I forget. I forget. Well, I think we were walking on to set and we were thinking about how we had talked about potentially me singing the National Anthem at the. At CHSN Day. And then I was like, let's see if I can do it.

4:11And then I just went through the whole process. It was very impressive. And now it's time for Reheat Me and Grody, Mark and Layla, Layla and Mark. Hello, everybody. Good morning. How are we? We're good. We are very good because it's football Friday. By the way, uh, per Dustin Rhodes, who has preemptively accused and essentially threatened people who might consider picking the Carolina Panthers. That's our G.H.R. involvement in this, okay? To be done right. I don't know. Hey, everything's recorded on a mic. Nobody can lie about it. Yeah, you said H.R. pal. No, no, it's on. Uh, we will do our predictions at the end of the show. So Dustin, you you perk up, you be listening, okay? That's a tease. That's a tease. That's right. That's a tease. Um, because it is a football Friday today. So we are feeling good. I am excited. And, um, we came, Layla and I did, we came with gifts today. And Ruthie, this is no offense because we didn't,

5:11we don't have gifts for you, but you could, you could share. But, um, here's the deal. Yesterday, we were out at Cody's public house. Oh, yeah. That's where we did our show. We had a great time. It was fun show. Shout out to everybody out there. We made lots of friends. They dressed us up and they're a parallel out there. I locked out with a t-shirt and a couple baseball caps that are pretty sweet. So last week, David, I was getting on you a little bit for your, seeming obsession with, with optostats. You were opta, opta haw, optostats this, optostats that, go to hear this, hear this about optostats, optostats. I think it was two days ago. Was that two days ago? Yeah, the last week too. I like optostats. I liked it. I love it. I do. I do. I do. I know you do. I get a lot out of it. I honestly had not heard of optostats. I just had never heard. I didn't realize. I don't think, and I listen to you a lot, haw. I don't remember you. He's everywhere. Going through, yeah, he is everywhere. And that's good, by the way. I had never heard you optostating as much as you had been over a couple. I was like, where did this come from?

6:12Pause all optostats. So yesterday, we were out at Cody's public house, a gentleman arrives with a bag, and during the break, he introduces himself, hey, I'm Matt from Optostats. Come on. I'm Matt from Optostats. I heard you guys talking about, I'm a big fan of the show, big fan of the score. And I heard, grote, me, you being all confused and not having heard of optostats. And so he explained to me, and it made sense, that it is formerly Stats LLC, and also associated with something called info-solutions.com. And Stats Inc. And Stats Inc. Which goes way back, remember? I never got no that. I didn't either. Right? The one? John DeWon, Mike Murphy. Right. Murf back in the day. This is the same group. This is the same group. And he even, he even, mind too. And he even told me, he said, I understood your confusion. So he let me off the hook, Matt did. But I was blown away by that. So I felt better about it.

7:12But he also gave us a bag of goods. And Layla and I thought that we would, as good teammates, we would present them to you. Wow. Because you are Mr. Optostats. We have for you starting right now. Layla, what? Describe to the audience what you have for Mr. Haw. We have a Koosie that just says Stats. Love it. You can hold a cold can of dye coconut if you wanted or a social sparkler. Or a beer. Correct. And you could put a beer in this. And this is an adult sippy cup is what it looks like here. Of those. And it says Stats perform, which is also absolutely confusing. I'm so enlivening on that one. Yingling? Yes. A shot of Yingling. That is so cool. Yes. So. Yeah, I think this fits a Yingling plate. I did not know that Optostats was a Chicago thing. I was just every time I find something of, like, of note that's really good research. It seems like they're providing. It's David Haw for Draft Kings. The weight is over. Football is here. So was Draft Kings. Draft Kings is now live in all 50 states. One app, every sport nationwide.

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10:18Lots of gratitude for those who gift me. Me, even if you don't gift me, I might have gratitude for you in life. I bring it up and you get the gift. How does that work? What's that? I bring it up and you get gifted. I don't want to make the rules, OK? We're moving it on to you, though. I can't keep this. All I can do is leave you a box of Pete Crow Crunch. Pete Crow Crunch. Oh my goodness. Yeah, that's a delicious sugary cereal. Pete Crow Crunch.com. People can buy a box and all proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club of Chicago. Wasn't there at Eddie Jackson cereal? Yeah, there was. Do you guys remember when Eddie Jackson had a 75 yard punt return touchdown and intercepted a 75 yard interception touchdown against Carolina? Remember? Yeah, never. When I put on a shot, she called that play that won play 2001 and they had the Bears that they were really good. That was a cool and Brian Hoyer talked about how much he loved Dow Lugins on our program. That was the most unlikely praise I've heard in a long time. I did not understand that. Yeah. I mean, I was like, wow, OK? I called him once Dow Fulogins. Oh, man. Because he was a guy that was one of the worst

11:19play callers in recent Bears. And kept saying, I mean, I love the honesty of he'd be like, yeah, we've never seen that coverage before. And I'm like, what have you seen? Dow. That's how good Brian Hoyer was as a Bears quarterback, though. He was able to overcome that. He had four straight 300 yard yards. I know. Dow was the low key architect of the Philly special. So there's that. Wow. Wow. We didn't push back. I saw a lot of people put their names on that. I know great point, Ruthie. Including press Taylor. Press Taylor. Yeah, he did. He kind of did the aw shucks though. Me. I don't know if I was involved. But the Bears rate at first, I believe. Wasn't that the deal? Was like the Bears ran it? And the, yeah, the Eagles found it reviewing some play. Would they have run it? If Tray Burton was healthy for the 2018, remember that whole drama? Well, but that was part of it, though. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I was some offense. That Tray Burton offense. Oh, she's a lot of Dow logons talk. You tight end is here. Well, we could reminisce all day, but you got a show. Yeah, we do. We got coming. We got it's football Friday on Rahimi and Grote today. So we are pumped up. We heard some things.

12:20I would say unconvincing things from Dennis Allen about the Bears defense that we will present to the class. We'll share. We will react inside our information from Adam and me and his meeting with Caleb Williams. We'll reveal some of that. But why he was on fire yesterday at Timothy O'Toole's. Why do you set a lot of stuff that needs to be discussed? Sometimes you just got, you just got to tell the truth. Yeah. I'm not saying that to you, but that's exactly what happened. Go, go, go. Just tell the truth. So he sets some stuff about Kyler Gordon that will reopen that conversation at some point today. We have at 1025 Kevin Fishbane of the athletic will join us at 11 a.m. How about this Eugene Robinson? Yeah. Eugene Robinson, the former NFL safety current color analyst for Carolina will be on with us. Five on it and noon. And yes, the final segment of the show today will be our prediction segment. The first one of the year on Rahimi and Grote. Have a great show. You too. You too, Brandon. Have a great weekend, buddy. Get you all in the shower, open up and sing it and then someone said, here we got to

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