meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Spiegel & Holmes Show

Nico Hoerner from his hometown prior to the Cubs series in San Francisco

Spiegel & Holmes Show

Audacy

Sports

4.2652 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Cubs 2nd Baseman Nico Hoerner joined the show ahead of the Cubs opening up a series in San Francisco against the Giants.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Nico, how you doing?

0:02.3

I'm good. I'm good. I'm going from my place in San Francisco and a self-driving

0:08.4

Waymo to the field right now. I have done the Waymo when I've been out in Arizona. By the way,

0:14.5

Speeges is off today. Big Ant Heeran who played in the NFL as a Iowa football legend is hosting

0:19.1

with me, Nico. So he wants to say, hey, but I have taken the Waymo and I now prefer it.

0:26.7

What's your experience?

0:28.5

It's a smooth ride.

0:29.3

I mean, no highways in the Waymo, which I'm cool with, keeping it under 30 miles an hour or so.

0:35.9

Just cruising across the city, it's smooth. All right. So I'm the dinosaur who hasn't been willing to attempt this yet. I do have some West Coast friends who've done it a few different times, and they love it like Nico seems to love it here. Give me the rundown, man. Is this your first time doing it? Do you know the route it's going to take before you hop in? Yeah, so I live here in the offseason in San Francisco, so I'm pretty familiar. Usually have my car out here, but obviously not this time of year. So, yeah, it's smooth. I think a little more consistent than the Uber. Yeah, it's nice. and I knew I was going to be talking to you guys, so I got no one else in the car to listen to me. It worked out really well. And they'll play, like, the soothing music for you if you need it as well. Oh, yeah. My big moment was earlier this year, because I had done it before. Like, you just kind of, like, try it out, and it's big out west and in in the desert and my moment began was I was in

1:30.5

an Uber I landed at Sky Harbor and my Uber driver first of all when I got in he said oh you

1:37.4

look like you're rich and I was like I don't like that how that sounds then he's they you do

1:43.8

kind of look like money, but, you know.

1:45.4

Okay, that's fine, but I don't need him to tell me that and then take me someplace and rob me.

1:49.6

But then, then he said, oh, I just got back from, I think he had been to Thailand and he

1:55.6

wanted to show me pictures and videos. And he decided that he was going to do that while

1:59.9

driving. So he had one hand on the wheel, and then the other hand was showing me the videos of all the

2:06.0

cool things that he saw. And as soon as I got out, I was like, that's it. I won't be taking

2:10.5

another Uber the whole time that I'm here. It's Waymo for me the whole way.

2:17.7

Yeah, it's a little sketch at that point. Yeah, it's a little sketch.

2:19.3

Yeah, it's super sketch, super sketch.

2:20.9

Nico, you guys have made up some ground.

2:23.7

Five and a half games back now of Milwaukee as you guys start to play this week.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.