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- Hey, they almost tied
- 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
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Are they more bad or boring? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
What are the Cubs more of, boring or bad? That's the big issue that Andy and Praz confront, while Oleg is out running around in his birthday suit. Should the Cubs buy, sell, neither or both? Who would want any of them? Would Jed even trade any of them if he could? Why...
No (trade) means no (trade), maybe – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
Andy has some things about the Cubs to get off his chest and so he sprints to the spacious Pointless Exercise podcast studio to discuss the possibility of the Cubs trading Seiya or Happ, why the trade deadline is still really important, why they should bring back an...
“It’s fun to watch them stick it to their owners” – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Sam joins Andy for the Cubs podcast and they discuss the strange sensation of seeing a team totally turn things around right before your eyes. The Cubs smacked the Padres around pretty good and started what's supposed to be a make or break June schedule gauntlet with...
Remember This Crap? – 1991 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
After some fond remembrances of Andy's time as an official scorer in the Midwest League, he and Mike D. spin the wheel of crap and it lands on...well, a year they can't do because of their only rule, so they spin again and get the Don Zimmer/Jim Essian juggernaut 1991...
Remember This Crap – 2005 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Neifi saved the season! At least that's what Dusty Baker insisted. We spin the wheel of crap and it lands on 2005 so we re-live Nomar's groin injury, Kerry Wood disappearing early and often between innings of starts, Derrek Lee's should have been MVP season, and a...
The Big Lebowski – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
It's time for a deep dive into the 1998 Coen Brothers' classic, "The Big Lebowski", and at over two hours it's perfect if you're not into that whole brevity thing. Andy and Mike P. discuss the seemingly disjointed plot that all comes together, the perfect...
“We’re doing this again?” Pointless Exercise Podcast presented by Manscaped™
Andy, Sam and Kyle have reassembled to discuss the Cubs season to date. Everybody's hurt, but it's not serious, you know the same thing that the Cubs training staff has said every time anybody has gotten hurt, ever. They play a fun game of "whose fault is it?" They...
Remember This Crap? 1989 Cubs – presented by Manscaped™ – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike D. spin the wheel of the crap and land on one of the most fun seasons in our lifetimes, the Boys of Zimmer, the 1989 Cubs. They dispel some myths about Mitch Williams' opening day tightrope walk, revel in a big moment from a backup catcher, the greatest...
Movie Deep Dive – Draft Day with special guest David Kaplan – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's a special edition of the Movie Deep Dive Podcast and Andy and Mike Pusateri are joined by a man with an inexplicable love of the 2014 Kevin Costner-Jennifer Garner classic "Draft Day." It's ESPN 1000 Chicago and NBC Sports Net Chicago's David Kaplan. The guys...
“Just stay above water” – Cubs Podcast – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Kyle are on hand to do the first in-season edition of this year's Cubs podcast. They take a tour around the roster wondering if Javy is ever going to shorten his swing (he's not), feigning shock at Joc Pederson's early season struggles, enjoying the...
Remember This Crap? – 2009 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap and it lands on the Lou Piniella's final full season with the Cubs, 2009. You probably remember it best for Milton Bradley just being a complete psychopath, or for Kevin Gregg kicking his own team in the balls in a must-win...
Movie Deep Dive- Rounders – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time for another Movie Deep Dive Podcast and this time Andy and Mike P. are breaking down the Matt Damon/Ed Norton/John Malkovich/John Turturro classic Rounders. What's with everybody's hair? Does the math in the movie make any sense? Why is that casino such a...
Remember This Crap? The 2001 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Once again, our heroes Andy and Mike D. spin the big wheel of crap to see where it will land what Cubs season they will discuss and this time it lands on a gem. Re-live Sammy Sosa's greatest season, a fun but bad Cubs team that spent most of the summer inexplicably in...
Remember This Crap? The 1992 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time once again to spin the big wheel and see what crap we have to remember and this time the wheel commands Andy and Mike D. to remember Jim Lefebvre's exciting 1992 squad. It was Greg Maddux's last year in his first stint with the team, Ryne Sandberg's last...
The Cubs are back, but to what end? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball season is nigh and man are we excited for the Cubs upcoming season! The baseball crew is back together with Andy, Kyle and Sam and they try to gin up some enthusiasm for what sure looks like the final promise of a Cubs run of dominance landing with a big,...
Remember This Crap? – The 1997 Cubs – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Remember This Crap is back, and if you thought we remembered a bunch of random stuff about the Bears you will be amazed what we can remember about the Cubs. We spin the wheel of death and it lands on...1997. It was a very memorable season for the Cubs, for all the...
The tourney returns just in time for us to throw our money at it
A year ago at this time we stared into the abyss. A frightening pandemic was spreading across the world and sports were shutting down every time we looked at our phones. The NBA suspended their season. Baseball went home. College basketball conference tournaments...
Movie Deep Dive – Major League – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. give the 1989 classic movie Major League the Movie Deep Dive treatment. Relive the best moments of your favorite baseball movie, learn scintillating facts about the cast and the shooting, and wait until you hear about how they used to figure out how...
Moneyball – Movie Deep Dive – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike Pusateri are back with another deep dive into a great movie. This time it's Moneyball, with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and...uh, Royce Clayton? You'll find out why Art Howe was so happy with the movie (he wasn't), how different the...
Movie Deep Dive Podcast Announcement
The Movie Deep Dive podcast is back for a long run, and here's a short podcast to explain what we're up to and to pick the next movie. If you missed The Right Stuff Deep Dive we did last fall, go check it out. New ones are coming soon. Subscribe to the podcast Sign up...