I think the awkwardness sounds like voice difference and timing to me more than subject matter or points of view. Maybe time can fix that. I still find in unbelievable that they only spoke for the first time the day before the first show. At a minimum the team thought towards modern job interviews would have called for a meeting of them during the decision process.

I've heard Spiegs a few times passive-aggressively chastise Parkins for things that he should be able to cover for, whether that's not getting to a point fast enough (I've heard one or two "I don't know where you're going with this...") or not talking about something he previously teased ("I feel like you teased that but you're not really talking about it").

Spiegel is enough of a pro that he should be able to recognize where those things are coming from and gloss over them to present a seamless show to the listener, but instead he blurts out criticisms of his new partner on the air. It's not to make a joke, or some larger point, it's just to critique the guy in his brand new job in front of a bunch of people.

Spiegs is 12 years older than Danny boy. Who thought having a huge age gap was a good idea? George McCaskey?

That cannot be true. That would make Matt pushing 60

Is there a station mandate to not talk as openly about sports gambling as much as other sports stations might? I know other stations in other markets have entire segments devoted to it (Parkins had a segment on it on his old show in KC), but despite Spiegel, Rozner, and Terry being avid gamblers and sports bettors, there hasn't been much of that kind of talk leaking on air.

Just heard Speigs getting shitty with Parky again