Rahimi, Harris & Grote Show - Transition: Bears maxed out every aspect of the 2025 season

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Marshall Harris and Mark Grote welcomed on Ramie Makhlouf and Anthony Herron for the daily transition segment.

If your responsibility is that great in which we're depending on you to cast your vote on three out of five individuals, and you can't 100% remember who you actually voted for without having an audit done by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, sir, this is a Wendy's. You don't need to be voting anymore. Go sit down, take a nap. We'll tell you when dinner is, probably about 4.30 for people of your condition. Boomer. Marshall Harris is right as we'd welcome you back into the Reheemey Harris and Grotie Show. I'm a little bit more sentimental about it. I'm a little bit more caring, a little more empathy in me because I'd give him a hug.

I would tell him that he's done, he's had a great career. I would tell, I would say, I bet you've got some serious disposable income too, that you should go spend and enjoy and leave the voting to the people that remember who they voted for. I mean, one thing I'll say is Bill Pollan has a very supportive. a family. He does, and they should take care of him. And I hope that is the case. This has been a fun week on Rahimi Harris and Grotie. I had a blast

listening to you and Layla earlier this week, and then taking the baton here in the middle of the week. It has been a fun week on Rehemi Harris and Grotie. Some thank yous to the people who made this show possible today, and I am staring at one of them right now. He is Ray Diaz,

the executive producer of the show. Our sound guy, our sound producer, he's a but. He is Tyler Buterbaugh. He is actually down the hallway in a different studio that we are existing in right now. Thank you to our video producers, Connor O'Donnell, Jacob Stutz, and Max Curtis. Thanks to our wonderful guest today, including one that is hanging out with us, Russ Dorsey. Thanks to Brian Geltziler, talking NBA of Sirius XM Radio.

He was great like he always is. We also talked to the former bear, Jim Schwantz. And as I said, this show today has been done in the Odyssey Performance Studio today, because while we were doing our show, they were doing augmentation, construction on the score's primary studio as we get ready for FM, which will go down on Monday,

and apparently that studio is now officially, I guess for the first time in that form, is being occupied by the Spiegel and Home show, which today is being manned by Anthony Herron and Rami McLaugh. Gentlemen, how are you feeling? Terrific. It is still under-consumption.

We're wearing hard hats in here, Grody. We got on hard hats or reflective vests. I can neither confirm nor deny if Rami has a bottle of champagne where he would be christening this studio. Now that there is some 104-3-the-score signage in here, I would imagine still some work to take place between now and the official launch Monday morning. But for anyone, any of the boomers, because I know Grody's been using that word a lot this week, any of the boomers out there who remember Gilligan's eye. Island, then, you know, who knows? Yeah, we've got our four-hour tour here where we may christen the SS score, the SS-104-3 score at some point today. Yeah, you know, we out here, we did not have Ginger or Marianne stopped through, but we had some people visit us today, including Russell Dorsey, as was mentioned.

But now, you know, it's good to be Friday. That's what I'm going to tell you guys. It is a great time to have a Friday. I feel like this day has been a long time coming for me personally. As much as I am going to enjoy this transition for the next 20 minutes or so, I got to tell you all, I'm ready for the weekend. And we're only one week away for the Super Bowl now. I tell you what, I do like it that they did go back to the two weeks in-between format of the Super Bowl

because there was a period of time where it went to one week. And because the NFL has gotten so big, it's difficult to squeeze it all in in one week. Well, if you do it like the NFL does it. And even though I hate the way to wait so long for the Super Bowl. Uber Bowl, I think it's right to have two weeks. Well, it used to alternate, right? Like back in your day, Grody. Back when you were...

Back in your day, Bruella. Yeah, back when, I think sometimes it was two weeks, sometimes it was one week. And at this point, they just said, you know what, we need two weeks. The event has gotten so big, so massive. You need at least two weeks between the conference championship games and folks to book their travel and TV and radio partnerships to make their way. out to whatever the site of the game is. And so now regardless of when those conference championship games, and we know that the NFL

Super Bowl is going to be two weeks later. I agree. I think that makes sense. I don't like it. It makes sense, but I don't like it. I'm an impatient person. I just don't like waiting. Watch the Pro Bowl games this week.

No. Flag football gets going. No. Absolutely not. What do you mean? Watch flag football. You know out of here. Flag football is fun, Robbie.

Flag football is fun. And here's, I do like the one reason. I do love the two weeks, and this is going to make me sound old. I'm a classic man. However you want to put that. Gen Xenial, I told you that. Don't act like you're not generous. Listen, listen.

I like that. Two weeks means you have a better chance of having both teams healthier than they would be after one week. I like it for like, hey, you got two weeks to get your stuff together. I want the best possible version of the game, and I think you get a better chance of that with two weeks off between the two weeks. Next thing Marshall is going to say it should be played in a dome every single year. don't have any of these playoff games being played out in the elements, especially the Super Bowl.

Sure, health matters. I know you're a Big Ten guy talking like that. That's exactly. I was telling the story, my college roommate, right, at Mississippi State University, and I would come back from the holiday break, and he would have clippings of all the Big Ten SEC matchups if the Big Ten did well that year.

It's like, yeah. Now imagine if y'all had to come up north to play us up there. Imagine how it would go then. So I'd imagine there's quite a few clippings that that individual has from the last three years then where the Big Ten has won the last three college football playoff national championships. Thank you very much. That is what we do, the Big Ten. We win, win, win, no matter what. That is nice.

And that is a welcome change, Ant, because there was a period of time and Marshall knows it where it was just like we look the Big Ten when I say we, we look like a child when we got into the game. When we finally got in to the game against fill in the blank, SEC team was like, oh, we weren't really that good. And what was your record against SEC teams in your time in college? I'm trying to remember if I played any SEC teams. I played Pac-12, played pretty sure ACC. I don't know that I ever played an SEC team during my time. And I, my college career in the late 90s, most of the seasons were at 11-game season, where I always had a big 12 opponent because we played the in-state rival Iowa State in-state

and sometimes we'd have multiple power conference opponents. So I'd have like the Big 12 team, the Cyclones, and then maybe a Pact 12 team where we'd travel out west and play Arizona, Arizona State, something like that. I don't think I actually ever played any SEC teams while I was in college. I get zero and zero was my record against the SEC. You didn't see a lot of like necessarily Big Ten SEC games. It was just in those bowl games when the Big Ten teams, if it was a national championship game or like it was always like, okay, you think you can. can you think you can and then you can't against the SEC. But that's a nice thing.

One thing I was thinking about too, and I talked about this a little bit earlier as it pertains to the life beyond the Chicago Bears in football. And we all watch the championship games. Now it's going to be the Super Bowl. I'm so glad that I have a completely different feeling this year watching those playoff games. Now, obviously, we'll watch the Super Bowl and not sitting there doing the, How do I come? What should the bears learn from these teams? How close are the bears to that?

Exactly. But it's a different kind of like, I don't know what to call it, like angst or pain to watch this now, Grody, because now I'm watching you going, man, they could be here right now. You know what I mean? But I also, Rami, you are right. And I had friends texting me, dude, the bears could have beaten Seattle. We could be going to the Super Bowl.

And I said, no, this season was, you maxed out every part. of this Bears season. Winning a playoff game was maxing out. That's it. The Bears, the Bears were not good enough to beat the L.A. Rams. They were not good enough to win more than 11 games. They were not good enough to win more than one playoff game. That said, it was a terrific season over which we can build. But because of that, it does feel different to me. I didn't feel that same way, Rami, that oh, man, they could have. Yeah, they could have. But it's been such a crazy season that it would have been hard to predict anyway. Speaking of maxing out, What exactly is Russ Dorsey doing right now?

Like I see his pecks just, you know, kind of emanating from his top that he's wearing right now. But he's on his phone the entire time. So, I mean, he's there. He's trying to be anonymous right now. You ruined it. But everybody on Twitch right now, Twitch. com. What exactly does Russ have going on right now, man?

Hello, Anthony Heron. What's up, man? I was just trying to, you know, I haven't seen my friends in a while. Okay. And I just wanted to be in their presence. But, like, I didn't want to. interrupt y'all's transition. All right. I can respect that.

You know what I mean? I'm just chilling the background on the phone, but like I was enjoying the jokes with you guys from afar. I see. Okay, that explains it. I'll just try to fail. As soon as Grotty started mentioning max it down, I'm like, all right, if Russ is going to be there, what are you benching, Russ? What are you benching, Russ?

Me, we need to know. I definitely did a workout before I came over here. What were you throwing up, though? I don't bench, like barbell bench, because I don't want that on my shoulders. What size dumpbells were you doing? The 90s. Oh, okay. All right.

We back up. Okay. Hit four sets of 10 with the 90s. So Russ as a young healthy man is not making the same mistake that Marshall tends to make where Marshall is still back squatting at an advanced stage. That's a problem. I've been healthy since that last year. It's a problem.

And for some reason Marshall will not correct. It got to like a point over the summer where like every seven weeks, six, seven weeks, he's like, yeah, man, I'm out of commission for two. He's like, brother, what? I have dialed in back. Just go on the 60 day I am. As an ex-ennial? Marshall already.

Yeah. To the ex part of that. Ronnie, here's the thing. It would be like a, it's a different body part every time. It's a knee. It's a back and ankle. His sciatica flares up. Gout.

Like this 12 things. I was not lying to y'all when he was talking about sciatica and how that works. Hey, I get it. I'm also an ex-ennial. If we're just throwing that word around But so I'm just, it's just body weight How do you know you're in Exenial? I don't know.

Marshall just making that word up. I have no idea which generation. Is there a definition for Exxedial? All right. You guys are out here? Well, I'm sure there's a definition for it, but it's also something that you guys have augmented. Like, like we can do that too, I suppose.

No, but listen to what I'm saying. It's like the crossover between different generations. So like if you're born between 77 and 83, you are in Exenial because even though... Okay, yeah, I'm writing the... I'm right in the middle of that. Yeah. Okay.

You fall under a clear line of like, yes, it goes from this year to this year. Yeah. There's enough crossover there that you have all the modern things that happen with one group versus another. So like for me personally, like my little brother and my little sister, they had Internet all their lives. They don't know what that is. I remember the first time we got dial up internet. So that's, yeah, oh, I like that. Well, I can relate to that.

There's a very relatable anecdote. I do think you think you're a little bit too nifty. With this exenial stuff. That's what is my resentment is. If you used the word nifty, tell us exactly where you're not. Is that fair of us? Yes, well,

it's fair. I wasn't going to say. Okay, that's fine. The gloves are off. You're not an exenial. What was last time you heard the word nifty? Oh, I mean, I'm just waiting to sit around the campfire now. I'm like, Brody use more boomer words.

I just love some more old manling going to imitate from my Grody right now. you's where it's like lickety split. How much was a shame and a haircut back in your day, by Grady? I got a crew cut. That's what I got. That's a good, clean haircut. Grotty's getting mad because he's like, where's that guy on the corner that was shining shoes? I can't find him in here.

That barbershop quartets. Brody drove a model T. That's how he got to describe it out. It's like, wind it up. Somebody offered me an Uber. I'm like, what is that? Seriously. How do I do that?

Wasn't it like a few days ago? there's one caller that made a boomer reference and now you've been scarred by it the rest of the week. That's what? He called you? What do you call you? Ock Boomer? Yeah, something like Unk and Boomer. Yeah, yeah, onker, enough of the Oonk and Boomer takes because I mentioned Jim McMahon as being in the team picture

for best quarterback ever. And I know that I understand that that triggers people. I get it because you didn't see it and I understand it. I understand it, believe it or not, I didn't see stuff in the 60s. That does not go along with the convenient theme of me being 85 right now. I understand that, but I get that part. Like, I don't want to hear about your 63

championship. Why? Because I didn't see it. So it's a little bit selfish, I think, when people just generalize that and just try to dismiss history and the greatest part of what was the Bears. But really, the point really is, if you're over 40, you're a millennial in this world.

Right? Or at least you're accused of being or an exenial. Or an exsennial. Yeah. Yeah. That's a very tight window. I gave it to you, 77 and 83. I fall in that. Yeah. I'm telling, I know those two in the other studio right now.

The Exenial show. I'm with it because it makes me sound younger. You know what I mean? It makes me sound younger than saying Gen X. That's why I think it's a scam. It's just like a hipster thing. But also the Gen X, like the difference between Grody and the two of you guys in the other studio and the other four of us is that tell them what you said when I said I played

video games growing up. What do you said? Oh yeah. I played wiffleball. I played basketball. And I tried to explain to them. I said, we did those things too. but we also have video games in our disposal.

Well, then I was playing more wiffleball. I was playing more basketball. Grady was playing Jacks. I was going to say the same exact thing. He was playing jacks. Jacks. Go down to the penny store and give me some black liquorage. I do remember penny candy, though.

Piny candy was a lot of the big thing in Chicago back of the day. He's got some medicine that you can be a little bit of that of purple stuff from old man Gower. Jacks is a cool. Jacks is crazy. I can't remember. But the last time I've been seen Jacks. What was some of y'all saw Jacks? What about that paddle game?

Isn't there a couple of paddle games? The last time I saw Jacks was at my grandma's house as a kid and she was born in the 20s. I'm going to go play a little hot skatch. So it makes sense why she had Jacks. I'm picturing Grody playing Jacks like, hello, my baby, hello.

Brody is probably playing Jackson now. Today he's only one with the Jack's app on his phone somehow. I got apps, kids. Check this up. What are these apps that you speak of? Grady, I love you. We all love you. We all love you.

But March, you guys don't have to do that. Don't do the we love you. Don't make me a sympathetic figure. That's even more. condescending. Oh, we love you, Grony. You're not old.

I really love you. You're neat. You're fun. Everybody loves grody. Don't do it. You like that. There's another boomer words. Don't patronize me.

Do not patronize me. I will not be patronized. But Marshall, even as an exennial, I'm only doing body weight squats, my man. I'm not putting a rack on my back and trying to put up a couple hundred. No, it's just body weight. I might hold a dumbbell,

you know what I mean, or a resistance band, but that's about it. I'm not doing crazy weight. Okay. I'm just looking out for you. I'm just looking out for you. I don't want that.

One piece. Mr. has to put his leg up during the show so he doesn't get too stiff. It doesn't seem. Whatever the way it is, it doesn't see. And that's the end.

Listen, when you start talking about Bersitis. Yeah. That's something you hear on TV later. Bersitis. Get your shingle vaccine. There's nothing you can do about it. Side effects include.

And they start speeding. You might die. You might die. A little scroles. rolling up the screen nonstop. Like, wait, maybe I should just stick with this sickness that I have right now instead of risking all those side effects. No, but that is how I watch those drug commercials.

I hope I never get that. Because when they go through the side effects for any given anything that they're from, you know, it's always the same music, the same type of video. Always. Happy people eating ice cream. Yeah, I can live my life. And then they start going through those side effects. You're like, oh, no.

And it always finishes with diarrhea and death. Those are the last two, diarrhea and death. And they are the worst, too, right? Someone argue that the diarrhea is a death. Because it's like that it's just not something that you can control. The death of your stomach lining. Gentlemen, I know you guys are in today for Spiegel and Holmesville. Anthony Heron and Rami McLaugh, what can we expect from you gentlemen today until 6 o'clock?

What have we today? We'll obviously get into the Ian Cunningham situation. Cassie Carlson will be here to talk about that and all things bears at 3 o'clock. Bruce Levine from Sox Fetz. We'll join us at 425 and Rhett Lewis. We'll talk Senior Bowl with us at 525 and much, much more.

Maybe hard hats. Rich Wyatt might keep rolling through here to do some of his excellent work. I need a reflective vest. Yes, reflective vests. Everything, some wands, perhaps. And maybe a bottle of champagne being broken on the wall. I can't promise. I like that. A little gnats on. Maybe you get a good jackhammer going in there.

They really talk sports. over that. Anthony Herron, Rami McLaugh, next on the score. And this segment is sponsored by Pekke Webb Ford.