It's Festivus, so we air our grievances

Spiegel & Holmes Show

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4.2 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 16 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	The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances.
0:05.0	I got a lot of problems with you, people.
0:07.0	Now, you're gonna hear about it.
0:10.0	You, Kroger, my son tells me your company states.
0:14.0	Oh, God.
0:16.0	Why, I could get yours in a minute.
0:19.0	Kroger, you couldn't smooth a silk sheet if you had a hot date with a bake.
0:25.6	I lost my train of thought.
0:28.6	All right, so here we are on Festivus, and Carmen Vitale is here here in the studio and she's got a list of grievances.
0:40.7	She would like to share with people to start Festivus.
0:45.1	Later on, she's going to do a fit of strength.
0:47.6	And that's getting to whatever her and Dave are going to do later on the night.
0:51.8	Fight traffic.
0:52.9	Yeah.
0:53.6	That's going to be your fit of strength. It'll also probably be another grievance. That's true. Actually, I have a traffic-related grievance. Go for it. Can I go for it? Yeah. Okay. GPS has ruined our ability to miss our turn. The amount of times... Oh, I'm with you on this one. People just will cross
1:13.5	three lanes of traffic because they were supposed to go right instead of left. I'm like,
1:18.1	just miss your turn. Just miss your turn. You do not get to mess up my day. You do not get to
1:25.3	cause an accident because you missed a turn.
1:29.0	Guess what?
1:29.6	The GPS will reroute you.
1:31.3	It's actually easier than ever before to miss your turn.
1:34.3	There's another place you can turn.
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