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- Upon further review
- Podcast: Opening Day!
- Podcast: Don't use an airplane toilet after Mookie
- Let's take the Cubs fan survey!
- Cubs get just as many wins in Japan as we all expected
- Podcast: 2025 Baseball Preview
- Six is better than four, but just barely
- Podcast: Cubs have the fun Japanese Players
- Podcast: Hats off to another great spring training
- Cubs and Bears making moves
- Bald don't lie
- Watch It! - Unforgotten
- Podcast: Remember This Crap - All-Time Cubs Third Basemen
- Podcast: Oleg's tales from Spring Training
- Spring omens
Latest Pointless Exercise Podcast Episodes
Hats off to another great spring training – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Baseball's hat designers learned the hard way that there are many, many words for breasts all over the world. David Brown is on hand to talk about that, about his upcoming train ride to spring training, the Cubs departure for Japan, dumb things said on sports radio,...
Remember This Crap – All-Time Cubs Third Basemen – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The Remember This Crap tour around the diamond remembering the greatest (and other) Cubs players at each position has reached the hot corner. Andy and Huey are on hand to tell you more than you'd ever like to know about every regular third baseman (and some irregular...
The Cubs might need to buy to start selling – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Tom Loxas joins the podcast to talk about how Jed Hoyer's display of a lack of ambition during his season post mortem might get challenged by the fact that the Cubs are having a hard time selling season tickets and ads on Marquee and really, much of anything these...
Sorry Nico, somebody’s gotta go – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Since Jed Hoyer has organizationally positioned himself into a corner if the Cubs are going to make any kind of impactful move somebody good has to get traded and much to Praz's chagrin, Andy and Oleg agree that the most likely guy to get sent packing is Nico Hoerner....
Jed speaks and the good teams are playing in the next round – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Two playoff previews in a week? Well, nothing is too good for our listeners. David Brown is back to talk about the Brewers gagging away a rare chance to advance, the Orioles have resumed squandering, and the three best teams in baseball are all in the NLCS. They talk...
Craig needs to take control of this mess – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Tom Loxas joins the podcast for his new regular spot and the guys discuss Andy's new theory on whether Cody Bellinger is going to stay, what the Cubs need to do to fix their mess versus what they're likely to actually try to to, and how the power in the organization...
Fixing the Cubs (uniforms) and how the Sox have impacted both wild card races – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The playoffs are looming and the Cubs are busy packing up to go home, but David Brown is here to talk about the tight wild card races in both leagues, and other important stuff like how the Cubs could pacify their fanbase simply by fixing three of their four uniforms....
A new job for Counsell? Can the Bears ditch the shotgun occasionally? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
It's two pods in one as Praz and Oleg join Andy to talk about the Cubs and the Bears. In the first half of the podcast they discuss the Cubs dreams of winning the NL Central come crashing down with a loss to the A's (I mean, it's only been over since May), and they...
The Cubs are still pretending and the Bears are back to their old tricks – Pointless Exercise Podcast
A weird week at Pointless Exercise leads to a guest free podcast that touches on the Cubs pretending to still be playing for something, the team botching a celebration of two of their most beloved players, dissension in the front office but Jed's coming back and TV...
Hard Knocks Ep. 5 – Too hot for gumbo – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Bears Hard Knocks is over and it was mostly fun. The finale had it all, guys getting cut (and most of them coming back to the practice squad), gumbo talk, bees, Ian Wheeler's book club, two very large nerds talking about whose country invented football, a guy who...
Super Mega Football Preview – Pointless Exercise Football Podcast
It's all hands on deck for the 2024 Super Mega Football Preview with Andy and all three Mikes, plus Oleg and David Brown. The guys are just full of football hot takery. They'll give you season over unders to bet or run away from, some bold predictions on the Bears,...
Bears Hard Knocks Ep. 4 – Legacy Game – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The gang is back together to take a look back at the surprisingly emotional fourth episode of the Bears Hard Knocks. We learn why Rome Odounze was so far out of bounds against the Bengals, spend a lot of time with running back Ian Wheeler and running backs coaches...
Hard Knocks Episode Three – Playing the hits. – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Week three of Hard Knocks gave us some stuff we had expected all along. Mike Praznowski joins me as we talk about a Flus nickname montage, Kevin Warren finally getting to talk about his beloved ill-fated lakefront stadium and punting! The Flus is coming off pretty...
Waivers, wild cards and all kinds of trades – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
Unsure which week it was, whether it was supposed to be the baseball podcast with David Brown or the Cubs podcast with Oleg and Praz the guys just all got together and had a four-way. A four-way podcast. Get your mind out of the gutter. Although they do spend a fair...
Hard Knocks Episode Two – Hot Dog Ice Cream? – Pointless Exercise Podcast
Week two of the Bears on Hard Knocks gives us a a very small girl using a word that will make George McCaskey blush, Velus Jones regaling people with tales of his deceased ferret, Rome Odunze being awesome, Jonathan Owens getting his ass kicked by his wife in a rope...
Hard Knocks Episode One – The Haircut – Pointless Exercise Bears Podcast
The Bears are finally on Hard Knocks and who better to come help us break it down than two of our Bears guys, including one who is an actual TV star. Praz and Mike Pusateri are here to watch The Flus get a haircut, be charmed by the ladies in his life, adore Rambo...
Do we want Cody to come back? – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys are back and all over the place. They discuss whether the Cubs are playing for anything, how to binge watch TV shows, what's up with Isaac Paredes, and how Pete Crow-Armstrong fixed his swing by imitating who? They also wonder if the Cubs are playing with...
Movie Deep Dive – Defending Your Life – Pointless Exercise Podcast
The movie deep dives are back and Mike Pusateri joins to the podcast as the guys break down Albert Brooks' 1991 classic "Defending Your Life." You'll hear stories about how Meryl Streep ended up in the movie, the Rip Torn renaissance, the incredible story about...
Trade Deadline Recap – Pointless Exercise Cubs Podcast
The guys take a look at what the Cubs actually got at the trade deadline. They ponder whether Christopher Morel or Isaac Paredes will have the better career, ponder Nico Hoerner's future, compare Nate Pearson to Calvin Schiraldi, and laud Jed for his incredible...
Trades can be so confusing – Pointless Exercise Baseball Podcast
The trade deadline is looming and somebody's going to do something really stupid, so David Brown joined us to try to help make sense of it all. Why are teams so afraid of trading top prospects when the last time a number one overall was dealt it worked out great for...