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Spiegel & Holmes Show

Ben Johnson was mic'd up and it was highly entertaining (Hour 3)

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the third hour, Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes listened and reacted to Bears head coach Ben Johnson being mic'd up. After that, Score reporter/host Mark Grote joined the show to share a Bears report after practice Thursday.

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0:00.0

Spiegel and Holmes. So I've been waiting to say, and the stars are Spiegel and Holmes, Chicago.

0:07.5

Afternoons on the score. Yeah, he is a mastermind. And so being able to have him, sometimes he's on the headset.

0:16.5

And it's like, this is a great play call right here. Here we go. And so he did that today, and he says that to me. And so he has all belief and confidence in himself. And then, you know, those little things actually provide confidence, you know, when you're about to go call to play. And, you know, you line up and you're like, oh-oh. And then the play actually works. And so the belief in trust in him, the faith in him that he's dialing it up and he does every time.

0:45.8

Let's talk about Ben Johnson.

0:48.4

Because Caleb Williams does.

0:50.4

Every day he wakes up excited to be coached by Ben Johnson.

0:55.0

Ben Johnson's a superstar as a head coach.

0:57.7

You know, I believe that.

0:59.1

Me and Peanut Tillman were Meshpucha, as they say, in this regard.

1:05.2

Coach is a superstar.

1:07.6

So that means he's, you know, as we learn about him, there's stuff that you tend to like.

1:13.7

Or there's certainly a curiosity.

1:15.7

That's for damn sure.

1:17.0

I'd like to know how that man ticks.

1:18.7

It's interesting too, because often what happens is we think about some of the idiosyncratic stuff with coaches in retrospect, and we tend to then

1:30.7

glorify it.

1:32.2

Like, there are still people, I think, terribly dressing up like Dicka and thinking that just

1:38.6

putting a mustache on makes them like, oh, I'm a little overweight and I'm putting on a mustache.

1:43.7

I'm Mike Dicka. They showed a thin guy with the mustache. She just wasn't even trying. Yeah, you're not even trying. You got the sweater vest and all that stuff. Hasn't it become of just like this is what we do and it's not really even about Dittka anymore? Like it's got mixed with the super fans? I'm sure that it's like that.

2:04.8

Or with Tibbs, you know, yelling ice.

2:05.6

Ice!

2:08.0

Has a different connotation now. Isn't that fun?

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