The time Laurence talked to Tom Dreesen after the Cubs won the World Series
Spiegel & Holmes Show
Audacy
4.2 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Spiegel and Holmes Show Flashback. Flashback. Frank Sinatra once said, a guy in the New York Times said, why do you keep Tom Driesen as your comedian for all these years? And Frank said, you mean besides the fact that he's funny? And the guy said, yeah, okay, besides the fact that he's funny. He said, well, if I'm a saloon singer and I am, Tommy's a saloon comedian. |
| 0:22.4 | He said, by that I mean, we're just a couple of neighborhood guys, and I'm a neighborhood |
| 0:25.9 | guy. A little bouncer slowly toward Bryant. He will glove it and throw to Rizzo. It's in time. |
| 0:31.1 | And the Chicago Cubs win the World Series. |
| 0:36.8 | Tom Driesen, definitely a neighborhood guy, rep Chicago via Harvey. |
| 0:43.1 | Grew up in Harvey. |
| 0:44.8 | Man. |
| 0:45.3 | Proud of growing up in Harvey. |
| 0:47.7 | That's awesome. |
| 0:48.5 | And him and Tim Reed had a beautiful partnership. |
| 0:50.9 | Tim Reed posted about Tom Driesen and said he was just the kindest guy he ever knew. It's a beautiful partnership. Tim Reed posted about Tom Driesen and said he was just the kindest guy |
| 0:56.1 | he ever knew. It's a beautiful thing. Yep. The music that you heard there is from Chicago |
| 1:01.0 | because Walt Parasader died yesterday as well. So at the end of the show, we mourned both |
| 1:07.0 | of those guys at the end of the show. And then you reminded us that there's a whole Tom Driesen episode from House of |
| 1:13.2 | Elle and Tanny went back and listened to it. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah, we talked to, I want to say it was six years ago maybe that Tom and I talked. |
| 1:21.4 | And we talked actually right in our updates video. |
| 1:24.3 | I asked Mitch if I could use the studio. |
| 1:26.9 | He's like for tom dreason absolutely phenomenal |
| 1:29.1 | and he was just so kind and we could have i think the episode is like an hour and 15 minutes |
| 1:35.8 | it's so good that stuff as part was trying to find out how to you know there's like he walks through the |
| 1:39.4 | history of like Vegas and like we talked about that in the show yesterday but we've i just figured |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 18 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
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.

