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- Jed's making moves. Just not ones that matter.
- Podcast: Remember This Crap - Worst Bears losses
- Do you even lift, Zom-bro?
- 'Cause you can't, you won't and you don't stop
- Podcast: Maybe Cody shouldn't get too comfortable
- Podcast: Bears rearrange the deck chairs
- Trying to just be good enough has consequences
- Futile and stupid
- The Cubs are idolizing the wrong teams
- What's it gonna take?
- You should be reading more television
- Podcast: Spooky Halloween Edition
- Podcast: Both Shohei and Judge have been harnessed
- If the Cubs aren't going to pay they're going to have to deal
- In the end, the Bears got what they deserved
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
“Like taking a snowmobile to a strip club” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is all here to talk about Sh?ta enjoying the All-Star Game, Jed's first big trade of the season, great catchers on the waiver wire and strip clubs where Praz can the lead the guys to at the bachelor party he's attending. Like all of our podcasts it somehow...
Would you take one in the melon for a house? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The All-Star rosters are set and the game is next week, so David Brown joins Andy to discuss why discussions of snubs are pointless, changes to the Home Run Derby again, and a brilliant idea for a fan participation event for pitchers that could be held right before...
Bears Podcast – The Dalton Era Begins (and hopefully ends) – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A new season means another year of the award-winning Bears Podcast with Andy and Mike P. They look ahead to the Bears 2021 and try to figure out what Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace would have to do to get canned, why Andy Dalton is starting, when Justin Fields will start,...
Remember This Crap? – 2003 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The wheel of crap finally landed on one of the most infamous seasons in Cubs history. It's time for Andy and Mike D. to remember the 2003 Cubs. It was a season that was incredible until it wasn't. Hindsight (and an actual World Series title) have made it easier to...
Remember This Crap? – Cubs Hall of Fame – Pointless Exercise
The Cubs unveiled a haphazard afterthought of a Hall of Fame, using mostly work done by other people that nobody even knew had been done, and that seemed right up our alley. So Andy and Mike D. decided to break down the 56 inductees, and surely we put more effort into...
Rizzo Traded to Yankees – Pointless Exercise Podcast
He was the face of the Cubs during the most successful run in more than a century, and even if it makes some business sense to move on from him it doesn't make it any easier for the fans. Kyle and Andy discuss the Cubs trade of Anthony Rizzo to the Yankees, whether...
GoodFellas – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
How can you poke holes in one of the greatest movies ever made? Well, you don't, mostly. Andy and Mike P. revisit the 1990 Martin Scorcese classic, "GoodFellas" and marvel at what a great, well made, incredibly paced movie it is, while taking issue with just a couple...
Drew Lawrence on the Olympics, the Bears, etc. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Olympics are here whether anybody's ready or not and Drew Lawrence of The Guardian (and several other publications) stops by to talk about them. Why are they happening? Why are they playing softball on a toxic waste site? The guys try to come up with a better way...
1999 Cubs – Remember This Crap? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A year after the Cubs' inexplicable playoff run and Sammy Sosa 66 homer season, the Cubs were without Kerry Wood (because of Tommy John Disease), but decided the keys to returning to the playoffs were bringing back 40-year old Gary Gaetti and signing Benito Santiago...
Oh god, we’re back to having to pick a spoiler to root for
Some of you younger fans might not know that for much of our existence of Cubs' fandom we've had an annual July rite that we gleefully got to eschew from 2015 until this year. The annual picking of the spoiler team we had to root for through the rest of the season and...
Cubs Podcast – So long Joc, and soon many more – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time for a Cubs podcast and Kyle joins Andy with Sam out on assignment, and the guys have breaking news to discuss with Joc Pederson traded to the Barves for an enormous prospect (literally.) They play a fun game of "Is he gonna be traded," they try to figure out...
Remember This Crap? – 2007 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Dusty era had ended, Sam Zell was in town screwing up the Tribune and trying to pump up the value of the Cubs so he could sell them to some unsuspecting dopes in Omaha, Alfonso Soriano, Theodore Roosevelt Lilly, Jason Marquis, Mark DeRosa and Cliff Lee were new to...
Bruce Miles – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Former Daily Herald Cubs' reporter Bruce Miles is back to discuss his new blog at brucemiles.net, his new book, "The Phenom" and to talk a lot about the Cubs current and past. Has the Cubs' six-game losing streak given the team permission to sell, and do they have...
Remember This Crap? – 1998 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
All Cubs seasons are fun to re-live (well, most of them) but some are more fun than others and this time the wheel of crap has gifted us the incredible, ridiculous, insane 1998 Cubs. Sammy Sosa homered every day, Kerry Wood struck out everybody, Terry Mulholland...
Remember This Crap? 2000 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
The season opened in the land of the rising sun and sunk pretty quickly afterwards. Don Baylor was the new Groove in town and he brought back a mediocre former Cubs catcher and an actual lead off man. Kerry Wood didn't debut until May after surviving his bout with...
Fletch – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Chevy Chase says it's his best movie and who are we to argue? We give Fletch the Movie Deep Dive treatment. We discuss the long tortured road it took to the screen in the first place, the differences between the book the movie, the stuff Chevy just made up, and we...
Remember This Crap? – 1996 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
It's time once again to spin the wheel of crap and this time it lands on 1996. Jim Riggleman's fighting Cubs tanked down the stretch (surprise), Sammy was bad at the start then great and then got hurt, Ryne Sandberg came back, Doug Jones hit the road, Steve Trachsel...
The Cardinals are plummeting and the Cubs need to avoid breaking their fall
I'm happy that Wrigley Field is back to full capacity starting today, but is it really smart to allow mouth breathing Cardinals fans into a packed stadium? Having Yadi breathing on people on the field is bad enough, but we know the people least likely to be vaccinated...
Remember This Crap? – 1977 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
When the 2021 Cubs tied the 1977 team for best record in May, it made us wonder what the hell happened to those 1977 Cubs. They had an 8.5 game lead and finished 20 games out of first, somehow. So, Mike D. and I brought in old friend Frank Nova (we needed somebody old...
Remember This Crap – 1994 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
A Cubs season so bad that all of baseball decided to just end the season in August...it's 1994 and that's this week's season to savor on Remember This Crap? Andy and Mike D. look back at Tuffy Rhodes' three homers on opening day, the Cubs not winning a home game until...