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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Bears head coach Ben Johnson is a poet now?

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.6632 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened to a poem that Bears head coach Ben Johnson shared at the Brian Piccolo Award ceremony Tuesday.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Spiegel and home show Flashback.

0:04.0

I love Brian Thicklow.

0:07.0

And I'd like all of you to love him too.

0:12.0

And tonight, hit your knees.

0:28.3

Please ask God to love him.

0:36.1

Man, I got to tell you, Lawrence, I'm sure there's some people in our listening audience who maybe don't even know who Brian Piccolo is, and we don't have to, like, define all of that. Look, look it up.

0:43.1

It's, it's a, it's a legendary story. That's a fun movie. And the original Brian's song is,

0:48.9

what, like 74 minutes or something like that? Yeah. It's worth you watching.

0:54.3

It really is.

0:55.0

And our friends are in it.

0:56.5

Yeah, our friends are in it.

0:57.5

Doug Bofone and Ed O'Bradovich are both in it.

0:59.9

They have tremendous, tremendous acting moments, especially for OB.

1:04.4

As themselves.

1:05.3

Oh, God.

1:06.5

It's just tremendous stuff.

1:08.4

It's a great, it's a great man cry movie oh dude i i still remember

1:14.6

seeing like an episode i think it was 2020 or one of those shows long long ago and they were

1:21.7

talking about a scientific experiment to see if tears from cutting an onion were the same as tears from sadness, you know?

1:30.2

And?

1:30.4

And they used Brian's song as a way to instigate the sadness so they could measure the tears

1:37.6

against the physical effect of the onion tears.

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