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- Everyone can stop pretending that Jed and Carter are good at this
- Podcast: Shaw and his leg kick are heading back to Iowa
- The Cubs don't need an ace more now, they needed one all along
- The Cubs offered Petecrow a bag...with three big holes in it
- Podcast: Sports Spectacular
- Podcast: Fun with run differential
- Did Kyle Tucker's price just go up?
- Only the Cubs can stop the Cubs
- Podcast: Hey, these guys are pretty good
- Podcast: Cycling off to nowhere
- Damn the torpedos!
- Upon further review
- Podcast: Opening Day!
- Podcast: Don't use an airplane toilet after Mookie
- Let's take the Cubs fan survey!
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Rubbing elbows and hiring coaches – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Convention came and went and Praz got to rub elbows with famous Cubs. The guys talk about the weekend, try to make sense of Tom Ricketts financial theories and tell you why you shouldn't be mad at the Dodgers, especially since the Cubs could do all of that if...
Cubs convention, Bears and The Beav and the best and worst Chicago media – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs Convention is looming, Kyle Tucker has a new (short) contract, and is Alex Bregman on the way? The Bears are talking in person to Mike "The Beav" McCarthy and is Tom Brady tampering with Ben Johnson? Bob Uecker's gone. And the Sun-Times has its list of the 20...
Learning the right lessons – Bears v. Giants – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears dominated a really terrible Giants team and the guys discuss whether or not the McCaskeys learned any of the right lessons from it. They also wonder if the inept play of an opposing QB has ever gotten a general manager fired. (Fingers crossed.) They bask in...
Best of the Giants – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
If you didn't hear it last year, or you have a less than great memory all of this stuff is new to you. There's a lot of crap to remember about two of the oldest and most similar franchises in NFL history, the New York Giants and our beloved Bears. From Tom Coughlin's...
Why can’t the Bears ever do the obvious thing? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
It was a Christmas (day after) miracle! Nick Foles led the Bears to a win in snowy Seattke and the guys are here to bask in the glow of a hard fought victory and wonder why the Bears haven't fired head coach Matt Nagy yet. They discuss what the delay might mean, why...
The Bears favorite playoff foes, the Seahawks – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Seahawks have played more times than you think in the relatively short (compared to the Bears) history of football in Seattke, but there have been some really memorable games. Hey, if it wasn't for them Lovie might not have ever won a playoff game! The...
We all need to be put out of our misery – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a spirited but incompetent game at home against the Vikings and lost. Matt Nagy kept losing his mind--or what's left of it--on the sidelines. Teven Jenkins decided somebody had to finally stand up for their quarterback. A sixth round draft pick looks...
Walter Payton destroys the Vikings…again – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears and Vikings ready to see if anybody's healthy enough to play on Monday, the guys look back at a classic matchup of the two teams from 1979. Seriously. It's a CBS production with a young Bob Costas teaming with current Bears' all-time leading receiver...
More primetime indignity – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears went up to Lambeau Field to humiliate themselves and us and they managed to not do it for an entire half! Heady times. Andy and Mike P. break down the fluky first half and the predictable fiasco that was the second half. They try to figure out what kind of...
This Bears Packers thing used to be the other way around – Remember This Crap? – 1985 Monday Night Football
You might not be old enough to remember that it used to be the Bears who handed out the repeated thumpings in Packers games, but Mike D. and Andy do, and they are taking a look back at one of the most humiliating nights in Packers' history. It was a Monday night clash...
The beginning of the end of the beginning of the end? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Cardinals played what technically met the minimum qualifications for an NFL football game on Sunday and Andy and Mike P. are ready to break it all down, tell you what they saw on the all-22 footage and..., well, mostly they're just going to make fun of...
The Bears oldest and most irrelevant rival – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and the Cardinals go back to even before they both played in Chicago, and yet, there aren't that many memorable games in the 121 year history of the "rivalry." The guys take a look back at how the rivalry got started, the many moves of the Cardinals, and...
Bears ruin another Thanksgiving – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears and Lions put America through an unwatchable slog in the early game on Thanksgiving and Mike P. and Andy are here to talk about it, about the weird week that preceded it (even by Bears' standards), and about where the Bears go from here. They have theories...
Thanksgiving Special – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Few teams have ruined more Thanksgivings for their fans than our Bears, and Mike D. and I felt it necessary to Remember This Crap about the many times the Bears have caused us indigestion on Turkey Day. They've been better on that day than you might think, then again,...
Nobody drives the narrative like our Bears – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played a wet turd of a game on Sunday against the Ravens, the only reason to watch them got hurt, Matt Nagy blew all three second half timeouts in spectacular fashion, and on Tuesday morning we thought it all finally got him fired. Until he wasn't. Yet....
Remember This Crap: “Did that guy go to prison?” Bears-Ravens – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Ravens don't have a long, illustrious history but the Bears have gotten the better of Baltimore in the series, even if the Ravens have been a more consistently good team than the Bears during the last quarter century. Andy and Mike D. recall Ravens who...
Enough stupid to go around – Bears v. Steelers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Matt Nagy was back on the sidelines and so was all of the dumb stuff that makes his coaching so special in the Bears 29-27 loss to the Steelers. The good news was that Justin Fields looked great, the bad news was that the Bears and the officials combined for so much...
Remember This Crap – Bears v. Steelers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears and Steelers square off on Monday Night and since there's no Manning Brothers Jamboree on ESPN2, you might as well just play this podcast while you watch the game with the sound down. Andy and Mike D. look back at the long history of the Steelers (a lot of...
Occasional bouts of competence – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears played without Matt Nagy on Sunday, something we'd all like to get used to. Justin Fields looked really good, something we'd also like to get used to. And yet, the Bears suffered a pretty dispiriting loss with a terrible defensive effort, and even progress...
Kelly Dwyer Returns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The biggest stars of Substack join forces as internationally renowned NBA scribe Kelly Dwyer joins Andy to talk about all of the really important stuff you want to hear them discuss. They talk 80s baseball, Andy's trip to St. Louis as a small boy, Premier League...