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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
Fifty shopping days until the trade deadline – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is approaching but with everybody (not the White Sox) still in the race, how active will it be? How does the Phillies losing a catcher screw the Cubs? David Brown drops by to show off the Wifi in his car and discuss all of this, plus whether the...
“A bunch of dull white dudes” – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The gang is back together to discuss why the Cubs aren't more fun (though spotting the Sox five run leads turned out to be pretty amusing), the end of our long national nightmare and the return of all-time Cubs great David Bote. They discuss the weird name of Bote's...
The Lions have a way of making guys want to quit – Remember This Crap?
It's time to remember even more crap about the Lions as they come to town to take on the Bears Sunday. The Lions had the courtesy to fire their idiot head coach named Matt, unlike the Bears. Andy and Mike D. look back the long, illustrious history of Lions coaches,...
They care. They’re just too dumb to know what to do. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Bears made fools of themselves, again, on national TV at Lambeau Field on Sunday night and Andy and Mike P. are on hand to wallow in the misery the Bears are shedding as the NFL's latest superspreader of suck. The guys tell you what the Bears need to do, and why...
Mitch? Please. No.
When The Visor benched Mitch Trubisky during the week three game in Atlanta it was a common discussion to have about whether or not Mitch had played his last game as a Bear. Well, since there were 13 games left to play, the likelihood of Nick Foles breaking his career...
Movie Deep Dive – The Right Stuff – Pointless Exercise Podcast
With the Bears off fighting their Week 11 bye to a draw, the Pointless Exercise podcast takes advantage of having an actual professional actor, Mike Pusateri, on it to go into a deep dive into one of Mike and Andy's favorite movies, Phillip Kaufman's 1983 classic The...
“The Packers were of no consequence” – Remember This Crap?
It's the one you've been waiting for. Mike D. and Andy Remember This Crap about the Bears and Packers. From the glory days when the Bears never lost to the Packers to whatever things are now, the guys remember Packers cheap shots, Chester Marcol's mad dash and the...
The saddest kind of quarterback controversy – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The pod starts with a new sponsor and ends with extensive talk about Theo Epstein leaving the Cubs, but in between Andy and Mike P. do their contractual duty and talk about another Bears loss. How the offensive coordinator search saved the season, the best thing about...
The roof has fallen on the Vikings more than you know – Remember This Crap?
It's time to Remember This Crap, and Mike D. and Andy look back on the glorious Bears-Vikings rivalry. It's mostly marked by Bud Grant pissing and moaning about the early '80s Bears not respecting the national anthem, field goals from the one yard line (that used to...
“He is a completely superficial coach.” – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. try to figure out what landscape company Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy can hold their farewell press conference at as they harken back to the last time Nagy's offense was any damned good (it's a long trip.) They go all Steve Kornacki over the Bears chances...
You can’t share a fight song – Remember This Crap?
We avoided all attempts at any Remember The Titans jokes, and instead started with a few minutes of talk about Mike D. nearly needing to crack some heads during his election judge stint on Tuesday. But then it was time to remember the Houston Oilers, a coach with a...
Could Mitch do any worse? Yes, he could! – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Andy and Mike P. look back at another stunning Bears game. They ponder the magnificence of the long awaited Mitch Package, wonder what good a visorless Matt Nagy is, scoff at the the idiocy of thinking switching back to Trubisky would do any good, marvel at a punt...
91. Did the Bears win the Ricky Williams trade? – Remember This Crap?
It's Saints week and man do Andy and Mike D. have crap to remember. There's the 2006 NFC Championship Game, which is easily the greatest moment in Bears history since Super Bowl XX (well, that or the time they ruined the Brett Favre jersey retirement by beating the...
“This play call is so good my visor hurts!” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
Mike P. and Andy try to process the Bears ill-fated trip to LA. They try to do the kick return math for Cordarrelle Patterson, try to figure out what it is that Ted Ginn Jr. does and what Matt Nagy's fascination with Demetrius Harris is. How many of Nagy's 25 career...
“The Fearsome Foursome is a bunch of BS” – Remember This Crap?
A famous Eric Dickerson-Mike Singletary collision, a long-lost Bears Danish kicker, two football teams from Cleveland, John Robinson and John Madden sitting in a parked RV in Madden's driveway drinking Vodka and Ensure and much more highlight this week's installment...
“Everybody’s on mute” – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears are 5-1 and Mike P. and Andy try to focus on the positive since that's a hell of a lot better than we expected at this point. Are they the worst 5-1 team in NFL history? They have stats that prove they aren't! The guys go over some of Matt Nagy's finest...
A playoff game worth getting thrown off an airplane for – Remember This Crap?
The Panthers are next up for the Bears, so Andy and Mike D. kick things off this week with great moments in that rivalry's history (there aren't many), but one of the guys got thrown off an airplane during their playoff game. Dom Capers hair, Steve Smith emasculating...
Matt Nagy demands occasional precision – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears beat the Bucs (really) and Andy and Mike P. break it down. They prove they can count to three which is at least as many as Tom Brady can. They discuss the kicker clown car, Andy's terrible movie depth perception, how every team should have a coach whose only...
What do you think of your team’s execution? – Remember This Crap
Mike D. and Andy are back to Remember This Crap, and this week they kick it off with the Bears next opponent, the illustrious Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Andy gets his kickers confused and calls John McKay Jim, and Mike thinks Sean McVay is related to him. But then things...
Many unhappy returns – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears somehow managed to get their ass kicked in every way and only lose by eight points on Sunday. Andy and Mike Pusateri are concerned how the short week before Thursday night's game with Tampa will affect...the podcast. If you give Matt Nagy an excuse to not...