Year of Ben Johnson: Chicago Bears’ Remarkable 2025 Turnaround | Tom Waddle Joins Hoge & Jahns

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Tom Waddle joins Hoge & Jahns as the 2025 season comes to a close to reflect on the Chicago Bears’ remarkable year. They break down the Bears’ head coaching search, the hiring of Ben Johnson, and how top draft picks like Colston Loveland, Luther Burden, and Kyle Monangai helped shape this season. Plus, the guys look ahead to 2026 as the Bears prepare to face the Detroit Lions and enter the NFL Playoffs with hopes of clinching the No. 2 seed. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	What is up? Welcome in Hogan Johns with you one more time in in 2025.
0:18.9	Happy New Year.
0:26.0	John, you have no, you have no excuse to not make it to midnight tonight, buddy.
0:27.5	Because I slept in?
0:28.6	You got your sleep in?
0:33.8	Dude, that Sunday and that game is still kicking my butt.
0:34.4	I know.
0:36.4	We talked about it a little bit on the show yesterday.
0:38.3	I don't know which show it was because I think I did six hours of shows yesterday. Congrats to CHGO, getting to 100,000 subscribers.
0:48.8	Hi, Katie. Katie's here. She's got a new microphone too, which you're going to hear in numbers to
0:53.3	think about. for those of us
0:55.3	in the youtube world though it's a big deal it's a big deal um it's a big deal for the company
1:00.4	and um it turned out to be just a really fun celebration uh last last night i we didn't really
1:10.3	know when or how it was gonna when we like started
1:13.6	that stream what was going to happen and then the way it worked out um and that just i randomly had
1:19.5	my family there too because we were going to the black hawks game and my wife was there in the studio
1:23.1	she's like this reminds me of the london post game show just the vibes like, it's like kind of half party atmosphere, but it was a good celebration.
1:30.4	So thank you to everybody who has supported us at CHGO.
1:34.7	And, you know, as we close out this year, it's New Year's Eve.
1:38.9	John's, it's been fun having you aboard.
1:40.7	Big move in July and having this show, Hogan John's part of it as well so uh not just having the bears win obviously has been a bonus and has helped but it's been uh it's been a really good year professionally too it's great to be here yeah hope you feel the same way i do i do i am so happy i made the move it's great to be here. What's the next step? Us hitting 30,000
2:02.0	on our own page here, but it was cool to be part of that show. Yesterday, it was cool to see.
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