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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
The Bears are interviewing everybody – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have whittled their list of coaching candidates down to a cool 15, and Tom Loxas drops by to give his thoughts on who they should hire. Mike Vrabel has already done his interview and Ben Johnson is up this weekend, what the hell are the other 13 guys there...
Cubs, Bears and Sammy with John Greenberg – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs are bringing Sammy Sosa back so it's time for the podcast to bring back it's favorite guest, Jon Greenberg to make fun of them for the tortured reunion, whether they have any intention of keeping Kyle Tucker and to get everybody's convention plans made. They...
Remember This Crap? – Bears – 49ers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time for some fresh crap so Andy and Mike D. take a tour through the surprisingly long history of Bears-49ers matchups. They spend most of their time in the Super Bowl era and look at three pretty awful playoff games, the demise of "Bear Weather", the birth of...
What happens now? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Just when you thought things couldn't get any more surreal for the Bears, the head visor, Matt Nagy has tested positive for COVID-19. Will he miss Sunday's game against the Niners? Would anybody notice if he did? Andy and Mike P. hold their noses and look back at the...
Remember Remember This Crap – John McKay was really funny – Pointless Exercise Podcast
We harken back to one of the best Bears editions of Remember this Crap with clips from last year's Tampa Bay Buccaneers podcast. If this episode were just us reading old John McKay quotes it would be worth your time, but wait, there's more, including Vinny...
What if it’s not just Aaron Rodgers that makes the Packers better than the Bears? – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Andy and Mike P. look back at a perfunctory Packers win over the Bears and they ponder the horrifying idea that maybe it's not just Aaron Rodgers that makes them better than the Bears. They appreciate that Matt Nagy is still finding new ways to waste timeouts. They...
Remember Remember This Crap – Bears – Packers – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time to remember Remember This Crap, Bears-Packers. We remind everyone that the Bears used to beat the Packers repeatedly, compare the Packers rivalry to the Cubs and Cardinals, explain Jay Cutler's biggest mistake in the NFC Championship game, we come up with...
Bears do simple better – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears went to Las Vegas and came back with a hangover, a lighter wallet, some sort of social disease and a win over the Raiders. The guys break down the Bears continued commitment to the run, Andy Dalton only wearing half his uniform on the bench, the NFL's...
Al Davis and Virginia McCaskey have a lot in common – Remember This Crap – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The 16th meeting of the Bears and Raiders is coming up Sunday so it's time to Remember This Crap about the history between the teams. From the early days of Bob Thomas missing important extra points, to a big game from Vince Evans, to Jim McMahon's lacerated kidney...
Matt Nagy says, “Collaborate this!” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Justin Fields was impressive on Sunday against the Lions. So impressive that Matt Nagy can't wait to not play him anymore. Andy and Mike P. harken back to the Bears second win of the season, wonder why Nagy won't let anybody else take credit for what they clearly did,...
Remember This Crap – Best of the Lions – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's the always exciting Bears-Lions matchup, and we look back at some of our favorite segments including, the time Andy asked for Walter Payton to be decorated onto his birthday cake, the first Bears QB the guys remember as kids, their first Bears jersey they ever...
“What the hell was that?” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Bears fans have hardly ever been as excited as they were for a game as we were on Sunday and within minutes we knew it was going bad and that nobody had a clue what they were doing. Andy and Mike P.similarly don't waste any time trying to figure out how Matt Nagy...
Remember This Crap? Bears-Browns – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears head to the Factory of Sadness this week to continue their infrequent and somewhat memorable rivalry with an AFC team that they have waaaaaay too much in common with. We look back at the two greatest running backs in NFL history, an assortment of lousy...
They’re morons and come from a long line of morons – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears won and Justin Fields is taking over and everything's great! Well, many things are great. Some things are still being Nagyed and Paced. Mike P. and Andy break down the win over the Bengals, look ahead to the game with the Browns and especially the dawn of...
Remember This Crap? – Bears and Bengals – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A fresh opponent for the Bears this week means a fresh crap! Andy and Mike D. harken back to classic Bears-Bengals games of yore, and what they find is a rivalry so tightly contested you can hardly believe it. The Bears on Sunday will be trying to set the longest...
Why are we still waiting? – Bears Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears weren't good on Sunday, and it didn't just look that way on TV as Mike P. was there to see it live, in person, in the Rams' new $5 billion stadium. He joins Andy to talk about what the Bears offensive game plan could possibly have been, and what has happened...
Remember This Crap Throwback – Eric Dickerson is out of gas – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's time to return to the Bears for Remember This Crap, but what to do when they open with a team we did last year? Let's revisit one of the finest Remember This Craps. A crummy re-run? No, there's nothing crummy about this one. This featured one of the greatest...
It’s not under until it’s over – NFL Props!
Football is almost here and it's time for us to gird up our loins and look ahead to what we can expect. There is (scientifically speaking) no better way to prepare for a season than by figuring out which team's win totals are going to go over or under the numbers...
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...