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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
Maybe he’s throwing a churro ball? – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
On this edition of the baseball podcast David Brown is on hand to discuss a sticky situation with Edwin Diaz and his interesting offer (not taken up) as to what the umpires should smell. They also talk about the game at Rickwood Field, more interesting Willie Mays...
Cubs can only go up from here — Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The Cubs are wallowing in last place, but thanks to the woeful National League they're not that far behind anybody (but the Dodgers and Phillies), so Oleg and Praz join the podcast to talk about what's wrong with the Cubs and what, if anything, can be done about it....
Do the Bears have the right coach, No. 1 receiver, offensive line and defense to lure Deshaun Watson?
Nope.
Early Super Bowl thoughts and the Bears never-ending QB search
The Big Game™Traditionally, the assholes in the NFL threaten to sue anyone but their approved corporate partners for calling the Super Bowl the Super Bowl, which is really the dumbest thing ever. The name isn't that great to begin with, I mean Lamar Hunt named...
McMichael stole the ball! McMichael stole the ball! – Remember This Crap
You all remember Cap Boso's turf face. You might remember Jim Harbaugh throwing the game tying touchdown to Neal Anderson's feet. But Blair Thomas will never forget Steve McMichael stealing a sure win out of his hands. It's time to remember a Monday Night Football...
“Everything is on the table” except competence – Pointless Exercise Podcast
You thought you were done with the Bears for the season and so did we, but the mind-numbingly tone deaf and just plain bad press conference last week with George, Ted, Ryan, Matt and Ringo deserved a breakdown so Andy and Mike P. are here to do it. They try to figure...
Todd Bell murders Joe Washington in DC — Remember This Crap?
The 1984 Bears playoff upset of the Washington Footballers in DC is remembered for a lot of things: the Bears broke a 21 year playoff win drought, they did it with their fifth quarterback of the season, the old school Washington team had a straight ahead kicker, a...
Bears are cleaning house with a duster instead of a plunger – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Word leaked out after Andy and Mike P. recorded the podcast that Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace are coming back, but it's not like the guys didn't expect it. They look back at an uninspiring playoff effort, try to figure out why their Parler passwords don't work, what...
The playoffs trudge on, even without the Bears
Did you know that the NFL playoffs didn't end with Mitch Trubisky winning the prestigious NVP Sunday after the Bears triumphant 21-9 loss to the Saints? I know, I'm as shocked as you are? How is anybody supposed to top winning a plastic blimp covered in snot? I'm...
If Mike Tomczak can beat the Saints, why not Mitch? — Remember This Crap
Sunday's game will be the third time the Bears and Saints have met in the playoffs and the Bears have won the first two. You remember the 2007 NFC Championship game and Andy and Mike D. talk about that, but you probably don't remember much about the 1991 Mike...
SpongeBob DrewPants – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears reward for losing to the Packers again is, inexplicably, a playoff spot. Andy and Mike P. look back at the Bears showing improvement against Green Bay and still losing by nearly three touchdowns, try to figure out what kind of defense that was supposed to...
Meaningful Bears-Packers games aren’t unique…but they also aren’t common – Remember This Crap?
It's Packers week part deux and Andy and Mike D. are ready to look back at important Bears-Packers games in recent history (there really have been some) they also talk about the Jerry Lewis telethon, Tom Dreesen, Caleb Hanie, Chris Conte, Eddie Jackson returning an...
Yu cheap bastards – EMERGENCY Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Cubs traded their best pitcher to the Padres for four bags of teenage beans and whatever the hell Zach Davies is supposed to be and that called for an emergency podcast with Andy and Sam Fels. What the trade says about the Ricketts desire to win is all bad, and...
“Nobody hates a dullard” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears have inexplicably staggered back into playoff contention and Andy and Mike P. get you ready for Sunday's sure-to-be-memorable tilt with the hated Packers. They go through all of the scenarios, look back at the Jags rousing halftime speech that convinced...
The Bears have often played like a bunch of Jags – Remember This Crap?
The history of the Bears and Jaguars is neither long nor storied, but we'll always have Keith Traylor and the crowning moment of Dick Jauron's 2001 Bears juggernaut. Andy and Mike D. look back on all seven contests between the teams, try to figure out why Jacksonville...
Bears Playoff Fever. Catch it. And die. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. talk about the Bears win over the Vikings and how everything on Sunday broke against the best interests of the team long-term. Will the Bears still be motivated to change the GM or coach? Will Ted Phillips be given a big Publisher's Clearinghouse...
The peak of the ill-fated Wanny era – Remember This Crap?
It's Vikings week part deux and Andy and Mike are Remembering This Crap about the Bears and Vikings which includes one of the rarest of all things in Bears history--a road playoff win, by Dave Wannstedt, no less--and tales of famous Vikings like Ted Brown, Jarvis...
Please remind the Bears that Sunday proved nothing – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The guys look back at a the Bears first win in nearly two months and hope that it didn't save anybody's job--but it probably did. The talk about Mitch's big day against a terrible, depleted Texans team, about whether they'd rather have the Texans future or the Bears,...
The Bears are still 0-for-Texans – Remember This Crap?
The Bears, a charter franchise of the NFL have played the Texans four times in the 19 year history fo the Texans and dumped them all. The Texans have prevented the Bears from making the playoffs, contributed to Paul Edinger's only career pass, and ruined a Bears...
Now they HAVE to blow it up, right? Right? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Another week another undignified Bears loss and Andy and Mike P. are begrudgingly ready to talk about it. They break down the epic Bears' collapse, try to figure out what anybody was thinking and where defense has gone. They talk about Ted Phillips' rumored...