Full Show — December 24, 2025

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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Sports

4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Matt Spiegel and Laurence Holmes bring you Chicago sports talk with great opinions, guests and fun. Join Spiegel and Holmes as they discuss the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, Cubs and White Sox and delve into the biggest sports storylines of the day. Recurring guests include former Bears coach Dave Wannstedt, former Bears center Olin Kreutz, Cubs manager Craig Counsell, Cubs second baseman Nico Hoerner and MLB Network personality Jon Morosi. Catch the show live Monday through Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. CT on 104.3 The Score, the exclusive audio home of the Cubs and the Bulls, or on the Audacy app.

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0:00.0	Spiegel and Holmes.
0:01.9	Okay, here we go, sports fans.
0:04.5	Afternoons on the score.
0:06.1	Sitting in for Matt Spiego is Carmen Vitale.
0:10.1	What's up, guys?
0:11.5	I would have all of these conversations about what constitutes the Midwest, because then I had friends from, like, Nebraska and Kansas that were like, well, we're Midwestern.
0:19.9	I'm like, no, you're not.
0:21.1	You are great planes.
0:22.7	You are a flyover state.
0:24.4	You're speaking my language, Carmen.
0:26.2	That is exactly how I feel.
0:28.3	The state line of Iowa, like the western point of Iowa has to be one of the borders.
0:34.4	The wild part is doing our cross-country drive this year when we moved back to Chicago
0:40.4	from L.A.
0:41.4	We did the entire state of Colorado.
0:44.2	And I don't think I really realized how eastern Colorado is essentially Kansas.
0:50.7	Yeah.
0:51.1	Like, it's flat.
0:52.5	It may even be flatter than parts of Kansas. I think it is flatter than parts of Kansas. Like you get over the Rockies and as soon as the Rockies are gone, like it is flat, flat. A4-7 Texas raises a good question. Why do we have to include Missouri? Okay. That's a fair question. That is a fair question. I mean, theoretically, we could call it the South.
1:12.3	Lord knows that they loved being the South for a very long time.
1:16.6	They'll like...
1:17.3	They've had a hard time choosing.
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