Pointless Exercise - A Desipio Podcast

Our Bears pod is shuttered (at least until the Bears trade two number ones for Rick Mirer again) but that doesn't mean Mike Pusateri and Andy are done with their podcast. This abbreviated episode is the announcement of the next movie in our Movie Deep Dive series. Enjoy. 

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 classic from 1991 when the Mike Ditka Bears took on Bruce Coslet's Jets. Al, Frank and Dan were on the call and Dan really wanted to sa...

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 out just what it is that George does, why Ted is still around and really why was he at the press conference, and they try to figure...

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 quarterback with a one bar facemask and male fans who wore dresses and pig noses. But mainly, the game is remembered for a second quart...

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 Nickelodeon was going for with their broadcast, Andy thinks Alabama's quarterback Mac Jones is named Matt, and they try to figure out how...

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 Tomczak-Steve Walsh-John Fourcade barage a tois, so we go deep into that one. It's the leftover players from the Super Bowl XX champions mix...

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 be, why the Bears refuse to hire running backs, what Mitch looked like against a real defense and what their reward would be if they s...

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 interception and hurting his knee, great high school football plays, great (and terrible) Hall of Fame busts, Gary Kubiak's migraines,...

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 while there are defensible reasons to trade a 34-year old pitcher who has had two serious arm injuries the "haul" the Cubs got in retu...

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 their team to stop trying, break down how averaging 35 points per game the last four weeks is basically just barely above average, look...

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 even has a team, re-live great moments for the A-Train, Peanut Tillman, Chad Hutchinson, Cameron Meredith, Brandon Marshall, Paul E...

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 check to leave and if so, Andy thinks he knows who they'll replace him with. Let's just say the interns should go out and buy ties. They...

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 Redwine, Joe Senser, Fuad Reveiz, Amp Lee and Steve Dils. The '94 playoff win at the Metrodome was the absolute peak of the Wanny era, a...

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, who Andy thinks should be the Bears QB next year and who probably will be. They also talk about the cinematic classic, Porky's, and...

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 season by scrambling Jay Cutler's brain. The guys also discuss why Bears should try an interim coach, how Ted Phillips got his job, Mugs...

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 retirement, why Ryan Pace can't pick the next QB and the advantages of firing everybody in-season. Andy gives a detailed (half-assed) scouting...

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, the youngest players in Hall of Fame history (and how that reflects pretty poorly on Detroit.) They also delve into Matt Millen's firs...

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 the McCaskey family is too dumb to do any of it. Mitch Trubisky came back to remind us why he was on the bench in the first place. Ma...

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 Right Stuff. Why should you listen to a two hour podcast about a three and a half hour movie? Because it's a great movie, and...

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 game was how quickly it was played, the saddest kind of quarterback controversy, a dark turn in our Noah Jackson discussion, ho...

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 be a thing), Wanny winning a road playoff game, the glorious chokes of Gary Anderson and Brett Fah-vuh-ruh, and the worst Monday Nigh...

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 to either make the playoffs or finish last, wonder if the backup fat guys the Bears had to use Sunday are really worse than the regu...

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 perfect record (for a while), Jeff Fisher's incredible ability to go 7-9 or 8-8, the Liberty Bowl, Bud Adams' toupee, NFL fight songs,...

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 returner that actually returns punts, and try to figure out how an NFL team can be completely befuddled by a malfunctioning quarterback...

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 Packers in Lambeau), and there are many more. What do you remember about Leon Johnson? Yes, THAT. They also talk about the Reuschel Br...