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House of L podcast

Dan Wiederer

House of L podcast

Laurence W. Holmes

Sports, History

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Laurence sits down with the Tribune's ace Bears reporter about covering the team in good times and bad. They also discuss Dan's book-writing career and how covering Coach K prepared him for anything.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yo welcome in to the House of L podcast I'm Lauren Tom's thanks so much for listening

0:21.4

to today's episode it's a lot of good episodes make sure that when you're done

0:29.9

with this one I know that Dan is the reason that you clicked on to this one but

0:34.5

make sure you check out some of the recent episodes whether it's this or

0:38.4

sports adjacent or me talking about the bulls we appreciate your support in

0:43.3

all endeavors I gotta admit man Dan Weeter has been one of the people that I

0:50.9

have wanted to sit down with since he got into town like I've when he started

0:59.2

covering the team it was towards the tail end of me covering the team so it

1:04.2

was fun to kind of compare notes and I would look forward to seeing him in

1:08.4

training camp in Burbon A to kind of pick his brain about what it is that he

1:13.6

was seeing what the bears looked like as an organization to him and rich

1:19.8

Campbell because they were they had clear eyes like both of those guys had clear

1:24.8

eyes on they weren't walking into this thing with any real preconceived notions

1:30.9

so it was good to always get their feedback and since then I've just enjoyed

1:36.9

his coverage of the bears Dan has done some of the real heavy lifting and deep

1:45.2

diving on to issues that matter and I appreciate that he's not just their

1:52.4

farming sound bites that he is really working hard to be investigative in his

2:00.2

beat reporting and that that takes some skill it takes some guts because we we

2:08.6

do live in a a place now where the relationship between media and team can be

2:15.9

strained and throughout this conversation you'll hear Dan and I actually

2:21.2

talk about that on how to do journalism when you understand that sometimes

2:31.0

it has to be adversarial and sometimes you have to dig deeper to get to the

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