Hey, it's the slow time of the football season.

We feel like we just needed to spice it up.

And I think we're doing an outstanding, incredible, over the top job of it.

Wow.

Not bad.

Not bad. Start to the football season. We're kicking it

off right now. Training camp two weeks away, but we're kicking off the football season right now.

Were you in on these discussions? Did you know this was going on? I have stayed out of it completely,

so as to not screw this up. No one ever tells me anything. But hey, a lot going on in my, in my personal

life that I'm going to get to at the end of the show today. I appreciate the support that I've

gotten, but I couldn't miss this. So we want to bring in our newest teammate from the Hogan

Johns podcast from the Athletic, from the Sun Times, Chicago royalty, our friend Adam Johnson. There he is. Welcome, brother. Congratulations.

Thanks, fellas. It's great to be here. I don't know what to say, really. Just pumped to do this.

Happy to see you guys. Yeah, well, I read the article earlier today about your journey,

you know, obviously starting out, you know, covering high school

sports, you know, hitting the deadlines and moving your way all to this. I mean, obviously,

your reputation proceeds yourself here in Chicago. You know, I know Bears fans are excited for this,

and we certainly are too. I mean, Hogan Johns, you know, we got to gash you up to start.

Hogan Johns has been a staple of Bears' coverage for a long time.

And to be able to sit here next to Hogue for the last few years has been a treat for me.

As somebody that's taken in the content and now for you to join the team means a lot to us.

And obviously, we're certainly excited and honored to have you and I personally you're way

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